ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the state and level of communication in the antinuclear movement. The recent worldwide growth of the antinuclear movement is not the result of any imminent danger of a global nuclear clash between the superpowers. The worldwide depression is the longest in the history of capitalism. In the immediate postwar atmosphere of the Western world a consensus came about that seemed to be shared even by the opponents of capitalist economic and social organization. The United States appeared at the end of World War Two as the great democracy ushering in a new world era of democracy, and in fact it created the “free world,” which is a combination of politically free states as well as political tyrannies in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. The disappearance of socialist perspectives or hopes has considerably contributed to the political-ideological monopolization of the situation by the antinuclear movement and, obversely, to the Leftist self-abandon to the antinuclear cause almost without reservation.
