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Union members, Gorz said, have been trapped by "the union's inability or reluctance to question the basic criteria of capitalist decision-making." Their leaders, he explained, have found it "wiser and more productive to make quantitative demands only" and to ignore the long-range cultural and psychological effects of modern industrial working conditions...
...LONG TIME ago Godard said, that to move the camera, in other words, to analyze the material presented by a set shot, was a political act. For Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group the criteria for formal choices are political. It's silly to accuse them of not having coherent or correct politics; their movies are not about politics, any more than any art work is about any phenomena. Rather their films are a series of formal choices made according to a given criteria, and relate to possible criteria for formal choices, not strikes or demonstrations. Their political films...
...these bases, Ryan-who conducted his own defense-sought to argue his case within the framework of Harvard's social and political commitments, instead of adhering to the narrower criteria on which Harvard and Viola were determined to judge him. He did not attempt to exonerate himself in any strictly legal sense; he freely acknowledged that he was demonstrating on May 11, and his argument concerning the May 8 picket line was intended to demonstrate Harvard's motives in prosecuting him as well as his own innocence. And as long as he refused to speak in Viola's legal jargon...
...Members of the Harvard administration, led by Archibald Cox, made it clear that the grounds of the trespass complaint against Cheyney were political. They stated that no one knew any firm criteria for the permissible reappearance of an expelled student on campus: that previous visits by Cheyney and others had been acceptable; and therefore that it was his participation in a political struggle which had to be punished...
...debate over the morality and uses of power. Interventionists claimed the issue of Communism and Indochina was the decisive one. Opponents of intervention stressed the right of the Vietnamese to nationhood or to some kind of self determined political settlement. Very few tried to argue from strictly diplomatic criteria-to discover not what was in the interest of the free world or the Vietnamese people but what was in the interest of the United States...