Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today men worry and rage against each other over such questions, but no many men like myself, one answer is clear. The American economic system of corporate capitalism, reinforced by governmental bureaucracies, has a systematic tendency toward intervention, both military and political, in other countries. More generally, it has a systematic tendency toward economic exploitation, political corruption, social dislocation, environmental destruction, and individual alienation, both at home and abroad...
...Vietnamese war has indeed revealed corporate America in all its ghastly infirmity and, I would add, its systemic cruelty. The American economic system is gradually destroying us; in the end our salvation may lie in our destroying...
...lightning bolts and burning huts alone will not long illuminate nor eliminate the systemic flaws in American society. The radical reconstruction of a socio-economic order requires both what Marcuse calls "the critical theory of society" and an enduring and expanding radical movement within society to carry theory into practice. Only this assumption will have the skill and the strength to outlast the repressions and resources of corporate America. Otherwise, all the good works performed by radicals on the surface of American society will be like those desert flowers, so brilliant and short-lived, that whither with the first long...
...short, the university is a necessary condition for sustained radical analysis of American society and for strong radical movements to undertake its reconstruction; to diminish the university with reckless and witless attacks, with violence for the hell of it, is to diminish our radical future...
What is true of the university and a critical theory of society is true of the Center for International Affairs and a critical theory of American foreign policy. A conventional scholar need only cross the T of a pre-existing theory; a radical scholar usually must create his own theory. Radical scholarship takes more thought, more time, and more sweat than conventional scholarship, and this makes research support necessary for radical analyses...