Tolerance and Revolution:
A Marxist-non-Marxist Humanist Dialogue

TABLE OF CONTENTS

        Preface ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑                                                5

                      I. PAPERS AND COMMENTARIES

I.  J. P. van Praag – Causes of Alienation in Modern

        Technical Society and Their Elimination ‑ ‑ ‑                     11

        John Lewis – Commentary on van Praag ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑                25

        Mathilde Niel – Commentary on van Praag ‑ ‑                 27

    II. Svetozar Stojanović – Revolutionary Teleology and

        Ethics ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑                                                     29

        Andre Niel – Commentary on Stojanović ‑ ‑ ‑                  49

        Staniša Novaković – Commentary on Stojanović - -       51

  III. Paul Kurtz – In Defense of Tolerance ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑                     53

        Mathilde Niel – Commentary on Kurtz ‑ ‑ ‑                     60

        Pierre Lamarque – Commentary on Kurtz ‑ ‑ ‑                61

  IV. Niculae Bellu and Alex. Tanase  – Perspectives and

       Contradictions in the Contemporary Development of

        Man       ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑                                                         65

        Andre Niel – Commentary on Bellu and Tanase ‑  ‑          82

   V. Mihailo Marković – Human Nature and Present Day

       Possibilities of Social Development ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑                         85

        Mathilde Niel – Commentary on Marković ‑ ‑ -              102

  VI. Lucien de Coninck – Human Possibilities and Social

       Conditions                      ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ - -                    105

        Andre Niel – Commentary on de Coninck ‑ ‑ ‑                 112

VII. Andrej J. Hlávek – Power and Responsibility ‑ ‑              115

VIII. Emanuele Rierso – Rights of Individuals and Demands

         of Society ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑                                               123

II. DISCUSSION SUMMARIES

1. Human Nature and Common Values ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑                 131

Robert Tucker                          English section

P. Vranicki                               German section

Andre Niel                                French section

2. Humanism and Radical Change of Social Structures       137

John Lewis                               English section

J. Pasman                                 German section

Alex. Tanase                             French section

3. Participation and Bureaucracy ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑                           145

Robert Stein                             English section

L. Hansel                                  German section

Lj. Tadić                                   French section

III. CONCLUDING DIALOGUE

Participation, Bureaucracy, and the Limits of Tolerance ‑ - 153

Paul Kurtz

Mihailo Marković

J. P. van Praag

Niculae Bellu

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Niculae Bellu, University of Bucharest, Roumania.

Lucien de Coninck, University of Gand, Belgium.

L. Hansel, Bund Freireligioser Gemeinden Deutschlands, West Germany.

Andrej J. Hlávek, University of Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

Paul Kurtz, State University of New York at Buffalo, and American Humanist Association, U. S. A.

Pierre Lanzarque, Ligue Francaise de l’Enseignement, Paris, France.

John Lewis, Great Britain

Mihailo Marković, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Andre Niel, Institut de l’Homme, Paris, France.

Mathilde Niel, Institut de l’Homme, Paris, France.

Staniša Novaković, Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

J. Pasman, International Humanist and Ethical Union, Netherlands.

Emanuele Riverso, University of Salerno, Italy.

Robert Stein, American Ethical Union, New York, U. S. A.

Svetozar Stojanović, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Lj. Tadić, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Alex. Tanase, University of Bucharest, Roumania

Robert Tucker, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., U. S. A.

J. P. van Praag, University of Utrecht and International Humanist and Ethical Union, Netherlands

P. Vranicki, University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia.