1971 - 1975

FROM THE MOVEMENT: TOWARD REVOLUTION. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971. (Historical essays and collection of primary documents.) xv+170 pages.

“J. G. Ballard’s Subliminal Man,” in The Mirror of Infinity (New York: Harper and Row, 1970), 237-242. In Perennial Library, paperback edition, 220-225. Reprinted in SF: The Other Side of Realism (Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971), 199-203.

“Howard Philips Lovecraft,” Encyclopedia Americana, 1971.

“The Teaching of Literature in the Highest Academies of the Empire,” The Politics of Literature (New York: Random House, Pantheon Books, 1972 and Vintage Books, 1973), 101-129. Earlier version in College English, 31 (March 1970), 548-557. Reprinted in 100 Flowers, 1 (Spring 1971), 47-52. Also in University Review, #21 (1971), 29-32.

(Section of Pierre chapter of The Wake of the Gods reprinted in Studies in Pierre, Edited by Ralph Willett, Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, 1971, 88-92.)

THE ESSENTIAL STALIN: MAJOR THEORETICAL WRITINGS, 1905-1952. New York: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1972. London: Croom-Helms, 1973. (Collection, with historical introduction.) viii+511 pages.

(Chapter 8 of The Wake of the Gods reprinted in Thomas J. Rountree, Critics on Melville, Coral Gables, Florida: University of Miami Press, 1972.)

“The Teaching of Literature in the Highest Academies of the Empire,” The Politics of Literature (New York: Random House, Pantheon Books, 1972 and Vintage Books, 1973), 101-129. Earlier version in College English, 31 (March 1970), 548-557. Reprinted in 100 Flowers, 1 (Spring 1971), 47-52. Also in University Review, #21 (1971), 29-32.

“The Sky Is Falling,” Saturday Review: The Arts, 55 (July 15, 1972), 42-45. (Published under the title “Chic Bleak in Fantasy Fiction.”)

“Where All Freedoms but Stanford’s Are Academic” (entitled by Change “The Real Issues in My Case”), Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 4 (June 1972), front cover and pp. 31-39.

“The Revolutionary Alliance,” The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, July 10-12, 1972. (Published by the Center.)

Section of OPEN SOCIETY, film directed by Otto Lang, produced by Airlie Productions and George Washington University, 1972.

THE ESSENTIAL STALIN: MAJOR THEORETICAL WRITINGS, 1905-1952. New York: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1972. London: Croom-Helms, 1973. (Collection, with historical introduction.) viii+511 pages.

(“Bartleby” chapter of The Wake of the Gods reprinted in A Casebook for Research, New York: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Co., 1973.)

“On Hearing from Some More Professors of the U.S. Empire,” College English, 34 (January 1973), 580-582.

“Change, Science Fiction, and Marxism: Open or Closed Universes?,” Science-Fiction Studies, 2 (Part 2, 1973), 90-92. (Reprinted in Science-Fiction Studies: Selected Articles [Boston: Gregg Press, 1976].)

“Wie man Literatur auf den Hohen Schuler des Weltreiches lehrt,” Zeitschrift fur literaturwissenschaft und linguistik, 9/10 (1973), Frankfurt, Germany, 142-156. (Translation of “The Teaching of Literature in the Highest Academies of the Empire.”)

1973-2002 : Editorial Board, Editorial Consultant, Science-Fiction Studies.

Review of Less Than a Score, But a Point: Poems by T. J. Reddy,University Review (New York), #41 (December 1974), 29-30.

“The University as a Social Institution,” Canadian Conference on Education, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, February 20-22, 1974.

“On Melville,” “The Future Was Then,” “Multinational Corporations,” “The Societal Aetiology of Terrorism,” “Terrorism as a World Problem,” “The Silence of Literature,” “The Other More Nearly Perfect Worlds,” “The Cult of Violence,” 27th Annual Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado, March 10-15, 1974. (All available on cassettes from Conference on World Affairs Office.

“Third World Revolutionary Poetics,” Modern Language Association. Convention, December 27, 1974.

1970-1974: Commentator and talk show host (monthly and bi-monthly), KPFA, Berkeley, California.

BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM. New York: Harper’s Magazine Press, 1975. xviii+219 pages.

“Future Shocks,” Book World, The Washington Post, April 20, 1975.

“Why Not Teach the Humanities to Adult Basic Education Students,” in Why Teach the Humanities to Adult Basic Education Students. Kansas City, Missouri: Center for Resource Development in Adult Education, 1975, 7-22.

“`A’ Is for Afro-American: A Primer on American Literature,” Minnesota Review, n.s. 5 (Fall 1975), 53-64.

Ten presentations at 28th Annual Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado, March 11-15, 1975. (All available on cassettes from Conference on World Affairs Office.)

“Why Teach the Humanities to Adult Basic Education Students,” Town Meeting, University of Missouri–Kansas City, April 16, 1975.