Books: Demolishing Dogma

THE CONSERVATIVE ENEMY (251 pp.) —C.A.R. Crosland—Schocken ($4.95).

Many British socialists are profoundly put out. In today's affluent society, working-class people seem to care less and less about socialism. But one socialist, Labor M.P. Anthony Crosland, 44, could not be happier: "I rejoice [in the affluent society] as the most beneficial social development in world history; and I detest the grudging reaction of those who have never themselves known poverty . . . Why, the moment that the workers acquire the cars, the holidays and the gadgets which the critics have been enjoying all their lives, should they be condemned as 'fatty'...