You have preached and practised the virtue of tolerance, the kind of tolerance for the lack of which the state grows mechanized and conscienceless.You know something of the machinery of unfair play. We beg you to note the following facts:In the evolution of the human mind we discover a gradually widening hiatus between physical competence and intellectual moral competence. The Guaranty Trust Company of New York placed an ad in Business Week of April 4, 1949, which assailed President Truman’s recommendations to the 1949 Congress. You understand the tyranny of sham shibboleths. You have never countenanced the evil doctrine of the brute coercion of the human will. Let us be reasonable.The one ineradicable fact which noamount of official intimidation can pulverize out of existence is that there is a type of man to whom (military) participation in war is tantamount to committing murder. There is no other way. (The God whom we worship is neither a jingo nor a militarist.) When we think sanely we are not averse to honoring the man of conscience provided he be an active friend of mankind and not a mere ease-taker.
There is no human power on God's earth that can coerce him into committing (what he knows to be) the act of murder. I'm voting Roosevelt," said a man, and I was impressed by the many who agreed. In ten years or less it won't be the people you want to suppress now who will be suppressed and stay suppressed by your theory; it will be yourselves along with many others, unless, indeed, you want to go farther than I think you do in support of a Roosevelt totalitarianism. There is room for difference of opinion.
The real world is a world in which privilege can only uprooted by power. We beg you to note the following facts:In the evolution of the human mind we discover a gradually widening hiatus between physical competence and intellectual moral competence. Immediate remedies for some of the suffering of unemployment will be good not only in themselves but because they help our progress toward this goal.It is a rather terrible thing that liberals should now be the spokesmen for a jittery program which, if it means anything, can only be interpreted to mean no criticism of the Administration except from us. There is a breathing space for discussion.How desperate must the social situation have become if large numbers of conscientious and law-abiding citizens have begun to feel an appalling sense of uneasiness in the presence of huge inscrutable forces, far beyond their power of control or sympathetic understanding. To combat this tendency where it threatens free speech, free press, freedom of assembly and freedom of conscience - the essentials of liberty and the heritage of all past wars worth fighting - that is the first function of the AUAM today.
I came to feel that these individuals must have a moral superiority over us, that there must be something decidedly wrong with the attitude of communism toward democracy.Norman Thomas, succeeding a hero of my youth, Eugene Debs, was Socialist candidate for the Presidency during one of my visits. Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues. So deeply imbedded in our life values is this distinction that we feel rather ashamed of being too expert physically. The test of manhood lies in service; not in one particular kind of service (suitable to one particular type of mind and body) but genuine service genuinely rendered to humanity.Hence the philosophic value of tolerance. Nothing else mattered to them, even the grave responsibility of Stalin in facilitating Hitler's march to power.Power driven machinery makes it possible to support great populations in plenty. Dorothy Straight and her husband, Willard Straight, were both deeply influenced by Willard Straight died during the influenza epidemic in 1918 but Dorothy Straight continued to fund what had now become a loss-making venture. But there he is, a tremendous fact. Had we not heaped personal and political abuse upon them (alternating with periods of praise)? There are other forms of bravery than the purely military one.
Shall he be maltreated for his scruples? Bruce Bliven replaced Herbert Croly as editor of the New Republic in 1930. He can't help it if that means giving some men the bitter leisure of unemployment and speeding up others.Only planned production for use, the abolition of parasitic ownership and the increase of spending power in the hands of the masses of the workers will end unemployment. You appreciate the menace of military psychology. You have never countenanced the evil doctrine of the brute coercion of the human will. The answer is simple and straightforward. The test of manhood lies in service; not in one particular kind of service (suitable to one particular type of mind and body) but genuine service genuinely rendered to humanity.Hence the philosophic value of tolerance. To improve your visit to our site, take a minute and upgrade your browser. It is easy to how that in the long run machinery by making it possible to have more things makes possible more jobs as well as shorter hours of labor.