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Whenever one thinks of American political democracy one finds oneself thinking of the workings of American political parties. It has become nearly second-nature for people to assume that the workings of American parties and American democracy are synonymous. For a society which agrees about this image of the democratic process it would seem inappropriate to suggest that the main influence on the government that of the party system, contradicts the democratic intent. Americans have always held that political parties, this nation's political parties anyway, are inherent to the functioning of democracy...
...never rehearsed. "I don't know beforehand what it will be. I don't know beforehand who I will be, because I am open to you just as you are open to me." Dialogue involves serious listening-listen-, ing not just to the other, but listening to oneself. This rare and wondrous event Kaplan calls "communion" instead of communication. "It seems to me impossible," he says, "to teach unless you are learning. You cannot really talk unless you are listening." The student is also the professor; the joke teller should also be part of the audience. To Kaplan...
...intelligence, this Schweyk advances its premise farther than any overview of the text might suggest would be possible. The amount of didactic mileage concealed in a series of simple comic vignettes pitting a group of small-time Czechs against a team of penny Nazis is something to experience for oneself. Though it may not finally upset one's faith in the Kafka version, this production will give that faith a thoroughly healthy shaking-up. That much, at least, I think we deserve...
However, this snag can be overcome by limiting oneself to those segments of each class that are directly linked to the processes of economic production, i.e., to those groups whose economic interests completely encompass the inner-most, primary level of the working of the American economy. Thus the crucial sub-classes to focus on are the Rich--all senior business executives, the Technostructure-Rich--junior business executives, engineers, technicians and scientists in the big corporations, and the Workers--all the people who work in factories (that's what they still are no matter how civilized the conditions) producing consumer goods...
Some people object that the urge to fend for oneself in as aggressive a manner as possible is basic human nature. This is not so. It is all a matter of human conditioning and any conditioning can be de-conditioned...