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Calkins is a liberal capitalist and sees that this (capitalist) society "needs" two kinds of people--highly educated professionals to run and manipulate from high positions in government and industry, and workers of increasing skill to actually produce the goods for society. Being a capitalist, Calkins believes that the rewards should be distributed largely to the former group, and that wage increases must be fought...
...movement lacked objective economic institutions to attack. The moralistic disapproval of capitalism had carried over from the thirties, but the thrust was no longer socialistic. Socialism is mentioned rarely by the moderate wing of the SDS, and even then only awkwardly. The enemy is the system, not just the capitalist system. The New Left has picked up the alienation of the beat generation and combined it with political activism...
...would rest, and above all if he felt that his work was serving an end that he personally felt to be important, then it would not be necessary to create the special kind of worker mentality that our schools presently turn out. Alienation appears to be a feature of capitalist industrialism (or in the case of the USSR, statecapitalist industrialism) rather than of industrialism in general. We should not accept such things as fixed...
...countries that follow your platitude, "production for use," without exception produce far less for their people to enjoy, of much shoddier quality, at much higher prices (measured by the hours of work needed to buy something). Don't you know that "Socialist" countries are smuggling "capitalist" incentives into their systems? Has it not dawned on you that whenever and whenever there is no free market, there is no free thought, no free art, no free politics, no free life...
...Marcuse "show that capitalist freedom actually enslaved." (He doesn't "show"--he only say.) He certainly does not sound enslaved. And does mouthing fragments for 19th-century ideology (Marx, Bakunin) really liberate? And in not Marcuse 40 years "older that 30," your cutoff on credibility? Incidentally, would you trust your life to a surgeon under 30--who never finished medical school...