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tellectuals must first set about liberating themselves by changing the
character of their immediate environments and therefore getting in
touch with the vanguard of blue- and white-collar workers similarly
engaged in the factories and unions, and also with the self-emancipating
elements among the small bourgeoisie, and with that new growing
lum–
penproletariat,
the drop-outs and the excluded. So far
as
the indus–
trial workers are concerned, they will transform the factories or the
factories will not be transformed at all. Intellectuals who leave their own
places of work in order to instruct others may be evading, rather than
assuming, their true responsibilities.
Stanley Diamond
Steven Hymer
Edward Nell
Emil Oestereicher
Trent Schroyer
Robert Terwilliger
Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
From the brilliant and
controversial Israeli novelist
Amo
His first novel to appear in America
MY
MICHAEL
William Phillips, in
Partisan Re–
view,
calls him "A gifted young
writer ... 'a most impressive '
figure." The novel, on its first
appearance in Israel in 1968, was
praised for its literary achieve–
ment and criticized for its dis-
quieting social and political im–
plications. It sold more than
40,000 copies-an outstanding
success in a cO,untry , whose
Hebrew reading population is
under a million:
$6.95 '
Just published
by
Knopf~
