A Visit with Sociologist C. Wright Mills
A Visit with Sociologist C. Wright Mills
A Visit with Sociologist C. Wright Mills
The following is a 1961 letter and postscript by Socialist Workers Party (SWP) leaders George Novack and Evelyn Reed to James P. Cannon, who was then SWP national chairman, describing a visit by Novac...
Dec. 29, 2025
The following is a 1961 letter and postscript by Socialist Workers Party (SWP) leaders George Novack[1] and Evelyn Reed[2] to James P. Cannon,[3] who was then SWP national chairman.
Describing a visit by Novack and Reed with sociologist C. Wright Mills — author of Listen Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba,[4] the letter centers on an exchange of views on the Cuban revolution, which had triumphed two years earlier, as well as broader issues, including Marxism and Stalinism.
The revolutionary victory in Cuba had a transformational impact, inspiring greater collaboration among fighters for social change who came from different backgrounds and experiences all over the world.