Ronald Aronson is the author of The Dialectics of Disaster, After Marxism, Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It and, most recently, Living Without God (Counterpoint). He teaches at Wayne State University.
As the bottom line is touted as the answer to every question and
"liberal" has become a dirty word, it's time for the left in America
to get friendly again with socialism.
Isaac Deutscher stands out among the early intellectual mentors of the
New Left as the only one who expounded classical Marxism. On a mid-1960s
"must read" authors list that included C.
