Word: middleclass
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...gains control over the means of production, laborers will see the futility of unlimited material aspiration and acquire a "revolutionary consciousness." But such predictions cannot be proved, and the fact is that many of the "new" workers who have reached decent levels of consumption aspire vigorously to the middleclass style of life. There remains, then, the problem of how to alter the values of teachers and technicians who have been indoctrinated by the system. It is possible that alienation about assignments on the job, and discontent about the Vietnamese War may be translated into an understanding of the faults...
...only stalled but increasingly hostile to them. Their leaders say that they will now concentrate on community action, and wistfully speak of a coalition of the universities and the poor-but that will not work either. The poor are not radical. What they really want to be is middleclass, and once they buy a car and make a down payment on a house, they will ignore the New Left and stick with their unions or political parties...
...Karenga, if not the leader of the nationalists, is at least their most flamboyant representative and most clamorous public relations man. His primary goal is to create a new Negro self-image, based not on white middleclass stereotypes, but on the Negro's African heritage. When I went in to see him, he was wearing a green buba--a long shirt of African origin--speaking into the telephone in Swahili...
...power made them seem impotent compared with the campus New Left, particularly after the 1964 student revolt at Berkeley. Lenore Sheridan, a member of the Students for a Demo cratic Society at Illinois, charges that the N.S.A. "doesn't really mean much," because it is made up of "middleclass white Americans" who may talk about revolution but are unwilling to bring about a "fundamental" change in American society. So N.S.A.'s politicians judge that the route to relevance and influence is emulation of the New Left...
...national council initiatives, Scout groups run by public-housing authorities have increased since 1960 from 210 to 704, those sponsored by settlement houses from 250 to 380. There are now 39 Scout groups at federal Job Corps camps, 14 at New Jersey's Camp Kilmer alone. As a "middleclass institution," says Job Corps Official David Gottlieb, Scouting appeals to Job Corps boys who "want to make...