Scott Nearing

World Events: Follow Your Leader

World events may be observed from hour to hour and day to day as they are scattered helter-skelter on printed pages or jumbled together in radio announcements. They cannot be understood unless the reader-listener knows some of the principles relating the events to one another.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

World Events: A War of Liberation

Indo-China (or French Indo-China as it was called in the West until quite recently) is an area of Southeast Asia bordering on China, Burma, Thailand, and Malaya. Indo-China is rich in fertile land and mineral resources. Its exports include rice, tin, tungsten, and rubber.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

World Events: Dulles versus Molotov in Berlin

Foreign ministers from four big powers met in Berlin from January 25 to February 18, 1954. They agreed to a disarmament conference under United Nations auspices. Also they fixed a place and date (Geneva, April 26, 1954) for a conference on Korea and Indo-China, to be sponsored by the Big Four, and attended by Peking, by North and South Korea, and by other participants in the Korean War. The foreign ministers did not agree on a treaty with Austria nor on a program for German unity and European security.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

The Resistance Is More Vigorous

A year ago Monthly Review printed a letter of mine describing the growth of a United States Resistance Movement. The letter was based on three months of travel and observation in 1951-52. During 1952-53, I have spent six months in thirty states covering some of the same ground as in the previous year, plus much additional territory. I should like to offer some observations on the state of the country during the winter months between October and April.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

Why I Believe in Socialism

The word socialism is used in this article to mean the collective public ownership and administration of those parts of the economy which are of common concern to the community as a whole. In this sense the people of Connecticut own and administer the state highways, and the people of the United States own and administer the post office and the national forests. Highways, post offices, and forest reserves are publicly operated for public benefit. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

The Recent Increase in Land Values

The recent increase in land values is of immense economic and social significance, because of the intimate relation which exists between this phenomenon, and that most pressing of modem economic dilemmas,―the rising cost of living. Although the pressure of increased living costs is keenly felt on every hand, few people realize what an important part the increase of land values plays in the upward movement of prices. Since 1896 prices have advanced unequally. Land values have apparently played a large part in this inequality. A study of retail prices shows that among food products, prices rose most rapidly in the case of meat, dairy products and cereals, which were derived directly from the land. The prices of raw materials show a like relation. Timber, grain, and other raw materials obtained directly from the land, have risen rapidly in price, while semi-manufactured materials rave increased less rapidly, or have decreased in price. The prices of those materials most directly secured from the land have risen fastest. Does it follow, logically, that the increase in land values has been more marked than the increase in the prices of the other factors entering into production? A study of the cost of labor, capital, management, land and the changing cost of the chief items of expense in production shows that

RAUSCHENBUSCH, WALTER. Christianising the Social Order. Pp. xii, 493, Price,

a trumpet call to enthusiastic Christian work. Christianity and the Social Crisis has been surpassed. Dr. Rauschenbusch has written another book, dealing immediately with the institutions of modern society. First he shows a religious background in tradition, custom and heresay. Then he points to the religious influence as it has affected the home, the church, the state. Last of all he deals with industry, depicting in all its embittering brutality the barbarous struggle which from day to day seethes to and fro before the eyes of the searcher after truth. In every institution, says Dr. Rauschenbusch, the spirit of Christianity has been felt. In industry alone the spirit of barbarism, the struggle of the brute still holds sway. To such an extent is this true, that were industry put on an island alone and isolated from the other social institutions which now surround it, it would be

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faiths which finds its chief support among the male population. Gradually by interpretation and custom, &dquo;adet,&dquo; the rigid rules of the Koran are being modified to suit modern conditions, and the forms still observed have a meaning for the Turk for which many parts of our own rituals have no counterpart. The faith is a faith that makes faithful. Its teachings of cleanliness, honor, and duty are powerful influences in keeping before the people standards that make for a strong national life.

Forbush, W. B. The Coming Generation. Pp. xix, 402. Price,

The subject of race control-eugenics-has been agitated in England since Galton wrote his &dquo;Hereditary Genius,&dquo; but the active propaganda for negative and positive eugenics arose with the present generation. The leaders in this eugenic propaganda movement are represented in the series of tracts which are announced under the general title &dquo;New Tracts for the Times.&dquo; The three tracts under review are essentially similar in viewpoint, yet so skilfully edited that they do not conflict in any sense. The general problem of

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Goldmark, Josephine. Fatigue and Efficiency. Pp. xvii, 591. Price