RADICALS: 'Revolution!

A Capitalist and a Communist can usually agree on one point—the meaning of the word "revolution."-To both it conjures up a picture of physical violence, bloody streets, armed rioters, machine-gun rule. When a Socialist talks of "revolution," however, he does not mean a civil upheaval by brute force but rather a radical political change by orderly political methods. He thinks of seizing the brain, not the body, of an electorate.

Such a revolution Socialist Norman Thomas had in mind last week when he addressed a convention of the Intercollegiate Student Council of the...

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