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...atmosphere of crisis is having strange effects on local politics. Some campaigns have become polarized conflicts between those who advocate tough anticrime measures and exploit fears of blacks, and those who take a more conciliatory, reformist position. But in most cities, race and crime are turning out to be volatile and unpredictable issues...
There is little doubt which ethic is most attractive to students at Harvard and at many American colleges. The reformist or New Politics idea that politics should be an issue-oriented struggle for the public should be an issue-oriented struggle for the public good is, after all, the sort of thing many of us absorbed in our high school civics or American government classes; the regulars' view of politics as primarily a struggle for public office, waged by almost any means necessary, smacks of the cartoons of Boss Tweed we viewed in those selfsame classes. And we feel comfortable...
...sassy for a few heady months in 1968, once again is tightly controlled. The journalists whose daring reporting helped fuel the Czechoslovaks' demands for reform have either been sacked or effectively muzzled. Radio and television now echo only the party line. The student union, the stronghold of the reformist youth, has been disbanded...
...Reformism exists in the Communist parties of both the West, where they are out of power, and Eastern Europe, where they are in power. Best exemplified in the West by the Italian Communist Party, the reformist strain is rational and reassuring. According to their pronouncements, the reformers aim to do what Alexander Dubcek attempted: to give Socialism a human face. The reformers reflect the trend toward embourgeoisement of the party members. Recognizing that voters are no longer gripped by old revolutionary slogans and that today's prosperous workers are more interested in Mercedes-Benz than Marx, many Communists have changed...
Among ruling Communist parties, the reformist showcase is the Yugoslavia of Josip Broz Tito, Communism's first heretic. There is far more freedom of expression and action in Yugoslavia than in any other country of Eastern Europe. Newsstands and bookshops offer Yugoslavs easy access to Western publications without fear of reprisals. There is, of course, censorship; certain books, like Milovan Djilas' works, are not available, and the press is controlled. Yugoslavs, if they can afford it, can travel abroad freely, in the East or West. Conversely, Westerners, whether tourists, businessmen or journalists, gain ready admission to Yugoslavia. By scrapping Communism...