Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of the Palestinians, Israel is an imperialist colonial power occupying their land. With no hope of driving the Israelis out themselves, the Palestinians aim to provoke Israel into taking over so much territory that it finally chokes on a glut of Arabs within its borders. Moreover, says Arafat, "the very process of Israeli expansion will extend the war of liberation into all the countries bordering on the occupied territories, and they will take up the struggle in defense of their own existence"-perhaps with Russia this time drawn in on the Arabs' side...
THESE legitimate and traditional means of dissent are important to the arguments throughout the book. And Kennedy defends both the aims and the results of the traditional dissent. He says in a parenthesis, "Indeed, those who confidently assert that direct political action breeds 'disrespect for the law' should look more closely at the facts. In Montgomery, Alabama, at the height of the civil rights demonstrations, the Negro crime rate declined almost to zero." In making this statement Kennedy puts forth a notion which pervades the book, but is never clarified. For he supports in the name of traditional dissent many...
...that widespread change is possible, peacefully, not only in selective service but in other institutions. I am equally convinced that brutal confrontations and violence will make this change more difficult. The need is, not to tear down the system, but to make use of its possibilities." The statement took aim at an issue that is the jugular vein to the nation's politics and the heart to the movement that activates concerned students. The nation decries violence and disruption while the students protest injustices and the failures of the system...
...aim of the political protest movement has also undergone a change in this process. For whereas the early sixties might have had as an object the highlighting of certain political wrongs when they protested, the aim of dissent is now to force change upon the system...
...traditional radical approach to this situation is the Marxist one of plumping for the aim of mobilizing these workers to overwhelm the power of the Rich by sheer weight of numbers. This was to be done by explaining to the workers that their interests were not being looked after in the prevailing state of affairs, which realization supposedly would so enrage the working class that they would do something about redressing the situation...