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EDITORIAL (con't. from page 2) state; but the evidence of other democratic socialist states offers only very moderate ground for satisfaction on that account. Someone further to the left, Dimitrios Roussopoulos, while rejecting both centralized technology and the centralized state, rests this hope upon "technology ... laying the basis for a decentralized post-scarcity society": as, indeed, did Marx. On the right, Professor Morton holds that the way to freedom is "to sever wages from work and pay everyone a living wage for merely being," a possibility made real, once again, by the machine. Can we continue much longer to hold such assumptions? Does not the attack on centralized and large-scale economic activity involve also an attack on growth and technology? Is there any reason to believe that the economy of growth is somehow self-perpetuating, whatever the nature of political and economic institutions? That seems doubtful. Or, if growth is explicitly rejected as the goal of a more humane society, is there any good reason to believe that stationary or stagnant economies could supply the minimum tolerable economic comforts to their members? A revolution in values might curtail our economic ambition and make more moderate satisfaction acceptable in the advanced countries . But we are a long way, still, from understanding and accepting this implication of radical change in North America. D.S. Notes Professor W. L. Morton is Vanier Professor of History at Trent University, author of The Kingdom of Canada and other works in Canadian history, and a member of the Editorial Board of this Iournal. F. R. Anton is Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary. Robert J. D. Page teaches history at Trent University. Neil Caplan is pursuing graduate studies in political science in England. 62 The Anatomy of a Party The National CCF 1932-1961 WALTER D. YOUNG In the first full-scale study of the national CCF, Walter Young analyses the two fundamental aspects of the federation: its nature as a movement and its nature as a political party. Making extensive use of materials from party files, personal papers, and interviews, he sheds light on the success and failure of the CCF in Canadian politics. $8.50 The Last Cannon Shot A Study of French-Canadian Nationalism 1837-1850 JACQUES MONET Dr. Monet describes in rich and lively detail the conflict of French Canada's priests and politicians over the central issue of their people's relation to the British Crown in the years between 1837 and 1851, perhaps the most critical period in the history of French Canada. $8.50 Empire and Nations Essays in Honour of Frederic H. Soward Edited by HARVEY L. DYCK and H.P. KROSBY Essays by fourteen outstanding contributors on the subject of the nations that evolved within the British Commonwealth and found, or are finding, their place in the world. $10.00 University of Toronto Press Revue d'etudes canadiennes ...