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Such attempts at classification, especially in the American context, have limitations. But one is fairly safe in including Prof. Hughes and men like Prof. David Riesman and Paul Goodman in the "utopian" camp. Also in this group is most of the so-called "peace movement"--Student Peace Union (SPU), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a large segment of Tocsin...
...Ideology there is virtually no ideological content in their dissent, no unifying theme. Indeed, some don't even know what they're dissenting from. Some talk about the "Establishment," some about the "military industrial complex," others about bureaucracy" and "big government." Dwight Macdonld and Paul Goodman call themselves anarchists, Prof. Hughes says he's a "socialist" (at least when he's not seeking votes). But the labels hardly help one's understanding, and are of even less value when one surveys the student political scene...
Twice in the last year the radicals have rallied their forces and made massive attempts to bring their message to the public. The first was the march to Washington by 5,000 college students last February; the second was Prof. Hughes campaign for the Senate and similar "peace" campaigns conducted prior to the November elections...
...Prof. Hughes and his followers set out to prove was that they really were worried about "peace," then I think they wasted their time. So they're sincere. So what. But I do not think that was the principal purpose of the Hughes campaign...
...Prof. Hughes' campaign only had meaning for the voters, for his workers, and for himself as long as the myth persisted that it really made a difference whether someone was interested in "peace." The frustration of the peace marcher, who was so insulted when the State Department did not actually talk policy with him was similar in kind, if not in quantity, to the frustration of the American citizen who stood by watching the drama unfold in the Caribbean. Both felt impotence, both felt despair...