Marx and Shame: Socialism Today.

This article presents an account of a the annual U.S.-based Socialist Scholars Conference which was attended by the author. There were speakers from a wide range of age group. The topics discussed were on several issues such as where does a Socialists heart go these days, if not to the workers of his own country? Well, to the African-Americans, to the native poor and to the peasants of distant lands. Running pervasively through almost all of the nine weekend panels was the theme of search for a new constituency; and if Marx's invidious characterization of both the lumpenproletariat and the peasantry was all but unanimously rejected. it was obviously not so much for "scientific" as for emotional reasons.