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Superpowers' Balancing Superpowers' EDITED BY MICHAEL HARRINGTON Balancing Act April 1980 Vol. VIII No. 4 $1 By Sanford Gottlieb OVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS baa deteriorated seriously be­ INSIDE fore the invasion of Afghani­ stan, and one of the reasons Meeting of the Minds, p. 3 on the Soviet side, perhaps the When they gathered for the Socialist Inter­ most important one, was the national Party Leaders' Conference the party NATO decision to deploy heads condemned the Soviet invasion and the medium-range missiles on Eu- new cold war. Michael Harrington reports. ropean soil. Secretary of State Vance de­ On Another Front, p. 5 scribed the rationale for this decision last Bogdan Denitch speculates about Yugoslavia December: "The Soviet deployment of after the death of Tito. modern MIRVed SS-20s, and the Back­ Campaign Curiosities, p. 7 fire bomber, threatens to provide the Soviets with nuclear preponderance in If the public only looks at personalities, why the European theater. In response, the does the press refer to Kennedy setbacks as (NATO) alliance has developed parallel defeats for liberalism? programs of modernization and arms Left at the Church, p. 8 control." In reality, "modernization" is a Is American Protestantism about to reclaim misnomer and there has been no arms some of its socialist heritage? Jim Gorman control. Pershing la/U.S. Army examines the rise of leftwing evangelicalism. The NATO fear of Soviet prepon­ Beyond Big Business Day, p. 10 derance is based in part on the USSR's replacement of older, single-warhead '' The new NATO Staying Home, p. 11 medium-range missiles targeting West­ missiles cannot be Breaking Away was one of the best-loved ern Europe with multiple-warhead SS-20s deployed before 1983. movies of 1979. Dorothee SOile and Jim Wal­ that can destroy more targets. This de­ By then the USSR could lace ask why we were all so happy not to see velopment stems from the MIRV tech­ anyone leave the patterns of sexual roles and nology that was pioneered by the United double the number of meaningless work. States and developed five years later by its SS-20s. The situation What's Left to Read, p. 13 the Soviets. calls for negotiations For many years NATO has allocated at the earliest possible Canadian Elections, p. 14 some 400 submarine-lilUnched nuclear Eric Lee went north for the elections and warheads to balance the Soviet medium­ time. '' notes that we can envy our neighbors their range missiles. Four hundred warheads­ large socialist caucus. each several times more powerful than On the Left, p. 14 the Hiroshima bomb-happen to repre­ Harry Fleischman begins a new column on sent the amount mentioned by former left-leaning items of interest. Defense Secretary McNamara in the 1960s as constituting an adequate nuclear to their official rhetoric, this decision will creasing lead in tactical (battlefield) nu­ deterrent. (The United States today has aggravate their fears and spur their clear weapons. Therefore, NATO should 10,000 strategic warheads in its arsenal.) counter-measures. build up immediately, not in the indefi­ The NATO decision to add 464 Was the NATO decision necessary ? nite future. The new NATO missiles ground-launched cruise missiles and 108 No, not from a military viewpoint cannot be deployed before 1983. By that Pershing II missiles to the European the­ and certainly not from an arms control time the USSR, if unchecked by arms ater does much more than "modernize" viewpoint. The International Institute agreements, could double the number of existing forces. It would be the first time for Strategic Studies' "Military Balance their SS-20s. The situation calls for ne­ that NATO missiles capable of reaching 1979-80" concludes that "something gotiations at the earliest possible time. targets in Russia would be deployed in very close to parity now exists between Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. the Theater Nuclear Forces (weapons Missed Opportunities In an international climate where the with ranges greater than 100 miles) of Jn Octnber 1979, Soviet President Soviet leadership feels increasingly "en­ NATO and the Warsaw Pact." More­ Brezhnev offered to "unilaterally reduce circled," a term that has recently returned over, NATO has a significant but de- the number of medium-range nuclear To the Editor: While few feminists would call for family was to heighten the conflict be­ We think your discussion of news the destruction of the family, neither is rwecn upper middle class professionals and current issues 1s interesting, but as it accurate to speak of a "new romance and working class women whose lives the newsletter of a socialist organization, with the family." To recognize that the typically were centered in their families. there's something that's sorely lacking­ family does meet human needs docs noc It should not surprise us that feminism and that is news about organizing. We preclude the recognition of the oppres­ (at times ambivalently) embraced the in­ want to hear what locals in Texas and ~iveness of the woman's "double day." dividualistic ethos which Dorf and Lan­ Michigan are doing. We want to know Betty Friedan may find herself in a new dau wish to confine to the otherness of about their successes and failures, how relation to her cooking, but most women corporate capitalism. Their conclusions they recruit new members. We want to find themselves in the same old one. belie their criticism; they begin by deny­ know how to operate locally as part of a Feminists seek new institutions, such as ing the past but end by embracing the national organization lo bring socialism community controlled day care, that very concern with interdependence which lo America.' would relieve some of the intense pres­ I suggested is at the heart of an impor­ Eva Olien sure now placed on the family. tant tendency in contemporary feminism. Renee Pink Socialists must realize that 1t is the • • • Rochester, N.Y. individualizing pressure of a corporate­ To the Editor: • • • dominated society, not feminism, that is Ir. his January article, "New Cold To the Editor: weakening all human bonds, including War Risk to Peace" Michael Harrington As DSOC members and participants those of family. We should search for gives Richard Nixon the credit for coin­ in a DSOC socialist-feminist study group, forms of community-in the family, the ing the phrase "throw money at prob­ we were disturbed by the tone of Jan neighborhood, and at work-that cele­ lems. ." In fact the quote belongs to Rosenberg's "New Shift in Family Fo­ brate the human interdependence of free, Senator Kenneth B. Keating as reported cus" () anuary 1980) . Its snide attitude equal people. in the New York Times of Dec. 24, 1961. towards feminist concerns and ideas was Carol Dorf The full quote is as follows: "Too often coupled with misreading of the actual Nathan Landau our Washington reflex is to discover a views of the family held by feminists. To New York, N.Y. problem and then throw money at it, speak of "genuflecting," "missionary Jan Rosenberg replies: hoping it will go away." zeal," and "orthodoxies" without ac­ In the movement's early days, vir­ Stephen R. Parker knowledging the value and power of re­ tually every radical feminist theorist de­ Jackson Heights, N.Y. cent feminist thought is not conducive to fined the family as the linchpin of sexism Letters lo the editor m11.rl be signed. W't­ ~ ~ympathetic, critical response to fem­ and called for its destruction. One unin­ reserve the right to edit for brevity. inism. tended consequence of the attacks on the Please limit letters to less than 250 words. Michael Harrington D ..: MOCRATIC LEFT is published ten times a year Editor (monthly except July and August) b} the Dem­ DEMOCRATIC ocratic Socialist Organizing Committee, 853 Formerly the Maxine Phillips Broadway, Suite 801, New York, N 't 10003. Newsletter of the Managing Editor Telephone: (212) 260-3270 Subscnpt oru: S lO IBYf Democratic Left sustaining and institutional ; s~ regular; sz . ~o Jim Chapin limited income. Signed amcles ex p:~~ the National Director opinions of the authors ISS:-.: :> 1 6~ -.r~o- . Second Class Permit Paid at l':ew Yo:' ~ T.Y. 2 DEMOCRATIC LEFT April 1980 rockets stationed in the western part of tions in those Western systems that are the various arms races in which they're the USSR, compared with the present to be deployed only in the mid-1980s. I engaged. May or June will be the last level, provided there is no additional think this approach never produced any­ chance to ratify SALT JI before it be­ deployment of medium-range nuclear thing in the past, nor will it now." The comes a perishable commodity. The Mu­ weapons in Western Europe." While the general might have added that Schmidt's tual Balanced Force Reductions Talks NATO countries could not accept this hawkish political opponents have been (MBFR), now stalled, need to be re­ offer at face value, it could have been breathing down his neck. vived. MBFR could be a possible forum seriously explored. Instead, the United The NATO decision did not occur for discussing medium-range missiles if States pressed its allies to approve deploy­ in a vacuum. It was part of the unravel­ SALT III is nowhere in view. ment of the new missiles. Afterward, ing of detente. This unraveling has been On March 3 Secretary Vance said in Secretary Vance declared: "We are pre­ fed by the Soviet military buildup, the Chicago: "Specifically, the offer to nego­ pared to enter into serious negotiations use of Cuban proxies in Africa, and the tiate an agreement on limiting theater on long-range theater nuclear forces, repression of dissidents at home.
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