Word: abolitionism
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It is indeed impossible for anyone to spend twenty-four consecutive hours in this country without recognizing the compelling logic and irresistible force of what Sartre has called 'an anti-racist racism." It is the necessary moment of negativity, the "only route which can lead to the abolition of racism...
But this necessary "anti-racist racism" does not become an end in itself, justifying a conservative totality. Rather, it opens up revolutionary perspectives. Because he is the most oppressed, he necessarily pursues-not only by a Hegelian ruse of reason-the liberation of all when he rises to enact his...
the dropping of the label "Honors' and the abolition of the three Honors distinctions, cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude. Although grades (especially when viewed in personal rather than competitive terms) can provide an incentive for academic work, Honors distinctions are determined at the end of an...
A related danger is to romanticize and sentimentalize the family. From the Greek tragedians to the modern psychoanalysts, men have known that the family, along with being a source of immense comfort, is also a place of savage battles, rivalries, and psychological if not physical mayhem. Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing says...
In the past, when SDS fought Harvard's complicity in racism and imperialism- for example, when SDS campaigned against ROTC, or against the Cambridge Project, or against racist pay differentials among campus workers- administration spokesman parroted old saws about the need for "rational discussion" (while, in fact, they never discussed...