Memoirs of a Revolutionist: Essays in Political Criticism

Introduction : Politics past --The responsibility of peoples. Massacre from the air --The Germans--three years later --Notes on the psychology of killing --My favorite general --The responsibility of intellectuals --Two footnotes to history --Looking at the war. The unconscious war --C.P.U.S.A. liquidates itself --Roosevelt's labor draft --Internationale into nationale --Monte Cassino --"Native politics" --Three worlds --Mr. Churchill's spades --The prospects for revolution --Warsaw --'Twas a famous victory --1919 v. 1944 --Old Judge Hull & the refugees --Horrors--ours and theirs --A Japanese Badoglio --The bomb --The late war : a trial balance --Stalin's February Ninth speech --Truman's doctrine, abroad and at home --The pacifist dilemma --"I choose the West" --The cultural front. Kulturbolshewismus & Mr. Van Wyck Brooks --Homage to twelve judges --Bureaucratic culture : Nicholas I and Josef I --The Eisenstein tragedy --Alien corn --Liberal soap opera --Memo to Mr. Luce --A way of death --Political pathology. Ultra-left : On the proletariat as a revolutionary class --Trotskyism I : "The only really moral people" --Trotskyism : Revolution, Ltd. --A historic moment --The liberals : The death of F.D.R. --"People's capitalism" --Curiouser and curiouser --What is totalitarian liberalism? --The truth about the U.N. --A note on Wallace --The comrades : Remarks on the Constitution of the Mongol People's Republic --USA v. USSR --The Great Thaw --Far into the right : The neo-non-conservatism, or notes on a career --Saints. Gandhi --Dorothy Day --By the way. The question of God --Too big.