ANATOMY OF ANTI-COMMUNISM

by American Friends Service Committee ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1969

A thorough description of the neurotic ""anti-Communism complex"" -- which the participating group feels has led to the malfunctioning of American foreign relations -- and prescriptive curative policies. In effect, this is a popularization of the spate of revisionist studies (most recently, Hans Morgenthau's A New Foreign Policy for the United States, p. 1417). First outlining its History, the authors argue that anti-Communism has placed this country on the side of reaction -- Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan, Diem and Ky in Vietnam -- when accommodation to revolution in the emerging nations would be morally and strategically more advantageous. Perhaps most cogent is the definition here of revolution as an ""honest response to the needs of an underdeveloped society"" and ""a necessary precondition to modernization."" Involved in the formulation were Milton Mayer, Sidney Lens and several historians. They advocate pooling foreign aid and diminishing the arms race. Inasmuch as this psycho-political condition has been diagnosed frequently, the book's main service is its brevity and its clear, easily accessible, language.

Pub Date: March 1, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Hill & Wang

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1969

Categories: NONFICTION