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...Errol T. Louis, in his recent editorial piece "The Darker Side," has certainly moderated his anti-American vituperation from the levels reached in some of the articles of his which appeared last year in What Is To Be Done? This time, in an admirable display of self-restraint, he limits himself to the charge that Blacks in this country and elsewhere are "as a group, getting beat in the head by various American institutions, chief among them the United States government." Louis is, of course, being figurative; we Blacks have not been in serious danger of random head-beating...
...seems that Errol Louis cannot begin to write about systematic oppression under the "democratic" capitalism in the West without being labelled an apologist for authoritarian "socialism" in the East. But if Louis has argued for any world-view in his brillaint End-papers, it is that the U.S. and the USSR form an axis of repression. As long as we think that our political choices are limited to Calvin Coolidge or Josef Stalin, we will be paralyzed with fear and trembling...
...Lieber and Baumgartner are not especially afraid of anything, but then again, neither seems in any hurry to change the slavish life most people in the West are forced to settle for. Let us perform a single thought experiment. If Errol Louis had been born in the Eastern bloc, it is probable that he would have become exactly what he is now: a courageous dissenter, exposing the lies that oppression and privilege dress up in. If Lieber and Baumgartner had been born in the Eastern bloc, it is likely that they would have become exactly what they...
...once I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with one of the statements made by Errol T. Louis in his "Endpaper" column. Last week he stated that most Harvard students, like most Americans, have been raised on a number of dangerous illusions about the world. However, I feel that the greatest and most dangerous illusion many Americans readily accept is that the United States and the Soviet Union are both motivated by morally equivalent aims in pursuing the arms race and that if only we would take the first step to disarm or institute a nuclear freeze...
...partners in Western Europe. If this is the case, may I suggest to Mr. Louis that he travel first to West Germany, and then to East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc. to discover the true implication of the term "satellite country." In the spirit of Orwell's 1984 and Errol T. Louis' "Endpaper," words have a way of losing their distinction so as to make lucid thinking impossible...