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A comparison of the 1999 mobilization against the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle, WA, with movements of the 1960s, focuses on differences between them, including many that benefit the new movement. It is contended that the most important distinction is that 1960s movements targeted the state, while the Seattle mobilization was aimed at global corporations. Further, there was considerable antipathy between radicals & liberals during the 1960s, especially within the antiwar movement, but Seattle disagreements were flexible, friendly, & involved a coalition that included both labor & progressive groups. Labor was not only mostly absent from 1960s movements, but was often hostile to young radicals, as shown by a construction worker attack on a NY antiwar march in 1970. The young & racially diverse participants in 1960s antiwar movements included many veterans of the civil rights movement, while people concerned with trade & international issues are of all ages but mostly white. The potential for Seattle's mobilization to generate a new mass movement is explored. J. Lindroth

In a letter to the editor, Robert D. Kaplan responds to David Rieff's review (2000) of his book, The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post-Cold War (2000). Rieff's misquotes about Kaplan's views of Henry Kissinger's policy choice in Vietnam & Kaplan's comparison of the US & Rome are corrected. David Rieff replies that Kaplan's perspective that the US is approaching anarchy is dangerous. He claims that his review of Kaplan's book was on target & that Kaplan is out of his depth, both in the book & in his reply above. M. Pflum

Chelsea College of Art Commissioned by David West Children's Books. 20th century Design is an informative series that explores the history of the century through design and technology. Along the way, it charts the explosive effect on design of art, everyday life, politics and new technologies of the time.

Chelsea College of Art Commissioned by David West Children's Books. 20th century Design is an informative series that explores the history of the century through design and technology. Along the way, it charts the explosive effect on design of art, everyday life, politics and new technologies of the time.

A review essay on books by (1) Jeff Faux, The Party's Not Over: A New Vision for the Democrats (New York: Basic Books, 1996); (2) Robert Kuttner, Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997); (3) Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (NJ: Princeton U Press, 1997); & (4) David Wagner, The New Temperance: America's Obsession with Sin and Vice (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997). These books address the consequences of current market obsessions at a time when market mechanisms control the workplace, socioeconomic inequality, & quality of the environment. Faux argues that the Democratic Party is on the brink of moral & electoral ruin through increasing compromises to a neoliberal agenda. Kuttner also promotes a social democratic agenda in his view of the workplace as an economic organization that needs a set of common norms articulated by the workers. Sugrue's comprehensive study of post-WWII Detroit, MI, shows how the interaction between race & class has promoted a worsening set of urban pathologies. Wagner exposes how a politics of personal morality has formed & advanced a neoliberal agenda. The works are noted for their part in pushing debate on the future of social democracy. J. Lindroth