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In the 1960s and 1970s, ''Dissent''’s skepticism toward [[Third World]] revolutions, national liberation theories, and the culture of the [[New Left]] isolated it from student movements, but its commitment to [[liberal internationalism]] and social egalitarianism — in particular, when it came to labor and civil rights issues — separated it from both the mainstream liberalism and the growing [[neoconservative]] movement. |
In the 1960s and 1970s, ''Dissent''’s skepticism toward [[Third World]] revolutions, national liberation theories, and the culture of the [[New Left]] isolated it from student movements, but its commitment to [[liberal internationalism]] and social egalitarianism — in particular, when it came to labor and civil rights issues — separated it from both the mainstream liberalism and the growing [[neoconservative]] movement. |
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Although ''Dissent'' still identifies itself with the liberal and social democratic values of its founders, its editors and contributors represent a broad spectrum of political outlooks. |
Although ''Dissent'' still identifies itself with the liberal and social democratic values of its founders, its editors and contributors represent a broad spectrum of political outlooks. For example, "Dissent" editors and writers disagreed regarding the U.S. invasion of [[Iraq]]. In a symposium in early 2003, two respondents (including co-editor Mitchell Cohen) supported the war while six (including co-editor [[Michael Walzer]]) opposed it.<ref>{{cite web |http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/introduction-drums-of-war-calls-for-peace |title="Drums of War, Calls for Peace" |work="Dissent" Winter 2003 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press}}</ref> |
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== References == |
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Revision as of 18:13, 27 October 2013
- For the Australian magazine, see Dissent (Australian magazine).
| File:Cover Dissent.jpg Cover of Spring 2010 issue | |
| Editor | Michael Kazin |
|---|---|
| Categories | Politics, culture |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| First issue | Winter 1954 |
| Company | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City, New York |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0012-3846 |
| OCLC | 664602786 |
Dissent is a quarterly magazine focusing on politics and culture edited by Michael Kazin. The magazine is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas.
History
The magazine was established in 1954 by a group of New York Intellectuals, which included Irving Howe, Lewis A. Coser, Henry Pachter, and Meyer Schapiro. Dissent set out to "dissent from the bleak atmosphere of conformism that pervades the political and intellectual life of the United States."[1] Howe and other co-founders had grown dissatisfied with the political and intellectual climate of the post-war era. Critical of the Communist Party in the U.S. and its support for the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin, they established the magazine to espouse democratic socialist values, critique contemporary politics and culture, and oppose both Soviet totalitarianism and McCarthyism in the U.S. Its contributing editors and writers offered a range of left, liberal, democratic socialist, and anti-communist views, and the magazine's writing was marked by both its long essays on the state of domestic and foreign politics but also covered conformity in American culture.[2]
From its inception, Dissent's politics deviated from the standard ideological positions of the left and right. Throughout the Cold War, its editors and contributors were rigorously anti-Communist, condemning the political and moral atrocities of the USSR and China, and calling into question the Marxist contention that culture is at the service of politics. Dissent was critical of the Communist experiments in Cuba and Vietnam, and maintained that the left's mandate was to defend democratic values as well as socialist ones.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Dissent’s skepticism toward Third World revolutions, national liberation theories, and the culture of the New Left isolated it from student movements, but its commitment to liberal internationalism and social egalitarianism — in particular, when it came to labor and civil rights issues — separated it from both the mainstream liberalism and the growing neoconservative movement.
Although Dissent still identifies itself with the liberal and social democratic values of its founders, its editors and contributors represent a broad spectrum of political outlooks. For example, "Dissent" editors and writers disagreed regarding the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In a symposium in early 2003, two respondents (including co-editor Mitchell Cohen) supported the war while six (including co-editor Michael Walzer) opposed it.[3]
References
- ^ "A Word to Our Readers" (PDF). Dissent, Winter 1954.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Neil Jumonville. "The Creation of Dissent: 1950–1955". Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America. University of California Press.
- ^ ""Drums of War, Calls for Peace"". "Dissent" Winter 2003. University of Pennsylvania Press.
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