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...search of a better understanding of twentieth century imperialism and the rise of socialism, Ramparts editor David Horowitz has written Empire and Revolution. In it, he manages to condense turgid material into a very readable overview of these problems...
...thesis begins with a standard radical analysis of the two major world forces: capitalism represented chiefly by America especially after the second World War, and the communism of Bolshevism and Maoism. Horowitz stresses the nature of these ideologies and various misinterpretations and myths. Following the critique of his mentor, Isaac Deutscher, to whom he dedicates the book, Horowitz outlines Bolshevik theory, the interaction with the bostile West, and the ensuing revisions in Russian policy and goals...
...Russian Revolution, runs the argument, caused a direct and prefound reaction in the capitalist world. Though the Bolsheviks'inteniton was not so much to cut Russia off as a market but to incite European revolutions, Horowitz shows how England and America directly intervened to organize the counter-revolutionary White-Guard to lead the civil war. His discussion reopens a controversey closed by historians for many years. Recent interpretations have vastly underplayed the role of the Allied interference in the Russian Revolution, but Horowitz resurrects much of E. H. Carr's classic three-volume work (1953), The Bolshevik Revolution...
Considering also Deutscher's studies of Russia, Horowitz shows that the intervention did not stop the revolution itself but did succeed in freezing European revolt. The consequences rebounded back to Russia provoking Stalin's theory of "socialism in one country." In effect, Russia had to rethink completely the role of its revolution: Russia would have to stand alone despite Lenin and Trotsky's earlier admonition against such prospects. Above all, the Russian Revolution succeeded in turning the focus of revolution from industrialized Europe to the third world: the center of imperialism...
...radicals, it was a new political awakening. The bombers had at last learned what millions of angry Americans had known all along?that the Weatherman was little more than an underground collective of grimly moralistic Bonnies and Clydes. Analyzing Weatherman tactics in a forthcoming Ramparts article, Writer David Horowitz observes that the terrorists overlooked the political consequences of their deeds; karma was their trip. Revolution had almost ceased to be a strategy of social change and had become instead its own justification, a cult, "a yoga of perfection." The result was that the Weatherman had lost, not gained ground...