Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Workers do not have power at the moment. The only possible means for them is to mobilize in large numbers. Their flirtation with Wallace was an attempt to acquire some institutional power in government. Traditional politics, the Democratic and Republican parties, do not offer them this institutional role...
...traditional radical approach to this situation is the Marxist one of plumping for the aim of mobilizing these workers to overwhelm the power of the Rich by sheer weight of numbers. This was to be done by explaining to the workers that their interests were not being looked after in the prevailing state of affairs, which realization supposedly would so enrage the working class that they would do something about redressing the situation...
...Technostructure-Rich owe their power mainly to their institutional positions in business, i.e., they can often make decisions that, as Galbraith demonstrated, cannot be overruled by their superiors within business or by any forces outside...
...need hardly be added that the two rich sub-classes do in fact use their power to look after their own interests and these necessarily conflict with the interests of the Workers...
Nevertheless, radicals have had, and are likely to have, very little success in this attempt to convert the Workers into agents of the revolution. This is because the Workers believe deeply in the existing value-structure which necessarily is one that is designed to perpetuate the present relationship of power. Specifically, this is the ethic of individualism which says that each man must try to acquire as much wealth for himself as he possibly can. The index of a man's standing is measured exclusively in terms of the goods he possesses which ensures the smooth functioning of the growth...