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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seem to be some grounds for expecting that alienation is not a necessary feature of all industrial society. The various aspects of alienation all reflect the central fact that a modern industrial worker or bureaucrat performs his work for someone else's benefit. The work situation does not present him with a goal that he personally values. If a worker controlled his own equipment, if he knew that he was to receive the full value of his work, if he were permitted to determine on his own when he would work and when he would rest, and above...
...second and perhaps more important benefit which would result from the dismantling of the present academic structure here would be the creation of an intellectual milieu conducive to critical social thought...
Critical thought cannot flourish in a hierarchical academy whose organization faithfully mirrors the present economic organization of society. Grades can force people to study national income or genetics or Shakespeare, but they militate against the study of a new, humane society. And they foster the illusion that there are no alternatives to an economic system based on contrived, sterile incentives, and operated for the benefit of the few. By ridding ourselves of this academic system, we will be creating a model of an alternative system of work--a system in which people work because they want to, because the work...
Indeed, the events of this academic year would draw the analogy between Harvard's past history and its present dilemmas even closer...
What emerges from all this is a judgment about past events. What one is faced with are similar events within the present crisis...