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...COMMENT on Professor Lipset's piece which appeared in the CRIMSON 24 November, 1970? On the evidence of the article, the collapse of Lipset's world-view and his all-too-recent apodictic certitudes on contemporary industrial society has inflicted him with so shattering an intellectual crisis, that he has taken refuge in fatality and historical cycles. I fear Professor Lipset risks wholly abdicating the intellectual's endeavor to understand the world-one might add, not only to interpret the world but to change it. Such an abdication portends serious consequences for his work...
...radicalism as a major phenomenon of the second half of the '60's." Prevailing orthodoxy, to be sure, dutifully assures us that "an affluent, consumer-oriented capitalist society has bred contented cows," that one dimensional technological society has reduced all its citizens to mindless automata. But even while Professor Lipset was solemnly proclaiming the end of an ideological era in which "fundamental political problems of the industrial revolution have been solved.... This very triumph of the democratic social revolution in the West ends domestic politics for those intellectuals who must have ideologies or utopias to motivate them to political action...
...Seymour Martin Lipset, Professor of Government and Social Relations, is co-author of The Politics of Unreason, a study of right wing extremism...
...paying plenty of attention to them, both to their excesses and to the underlying causes of their despair, if despair it is. In fact, some observers believe that the radical movement in the U.S. has passed its peak. Harvard's Seymour Lipset notes that "terrorism can mark either the beginning or the end of a movement...
...terror often appears to be epidemic is that the tactics are so similar. The guerrillas all study the same texts?by Mao or Che or Carlos Marighella (see box, page 20). Instant communications, moreover, guarantee a sort of global cross-pollination of radicalism. Harvard Professor of Government Seymour Martin Lipset tells of the time he "asked a revolutionary in South America whether he kept in touch with developments in the U.S. He replied, 'We watch television. We saw everything at Berkeley...