Deutscher Speaks in America

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Isauc Doutscher, the distinguished historian and biographer of Stalin and "rotcky, recently spoke at a rally of 1,500 people in Manhattan on May 27a. This rally was organised by the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Paraae, and speakers also included I.F. Stone and A.J. Muste, Assaiitn,; liberal apologists for capitalism who argue we are living under a "new" capitalism that has solved the old problems oi cyclical crises and unemployment, ke showed how the "successes" of the "new" capitalism are based on the horrible wars it wages. However, he declared ironically, Johnson is proving a teacher of Marxism and is educating many people against the revisionists of larx, Johnson's policies, he said, are exploding the notion of a "peaceful transition" from capitalism to socialism. He closed with a stIrring tribute to the U.S. anti-war movement, declaring its emergence a momentous development in U.S. and world history and a source of gre:t optimism for the future.