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...path of his nationalist revolution is outlined in the concluding essay, a speech given by Professor G. William Domhoff at a University of California student strike rally in 1968. The weapon of the radical is "psychic guerrilla warfare"--non-violent confrontation politics, waged with "unfailing good humor, psychological analysis, and the flower power of the hippie." Beginning with a core of academics and intellectuals, the movement will win over blue collar workers, small businessmen and farmers, and eventually the New Right, another foe of the corporate giants...
...Domhoff's 1968 speech calls for the welding of these groups into a new revolutionary party with a grass roots base large enough to win a Presidential election. In an August '72 postscript, he abandons the third-party scheme, and concludes that revolutionaries must run in Democratic Party primaries "on the most radical blueprints that can be developed." And as good Democrats, loyalty to the Party is "essential...
THESE RADICAL BLUEPRINTS are based on nationalization of the large corporations. The models for a post-revolutionary economy include the Berkeley food co-op and the Tennessee Valley Authority--which, states Domhoff, "has allowed the beginnings of the sane, productive and beautiful development of at least one-river region in our country"--although the TVA is actually one of the most important and most incorrigible polluters in the Tennessee Valley...
...consider the following: Break the ideological hegemony of the ruling class. Bring the struggle home to the Democratic Party. Become a Revolutionary Democrat dedicated to replacing corporation feudalism with concrete Blueprints for a post-corporate America. G. William Domhoff University of California