Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It should permit the United States to use general-purpose forces in limited situations with more freedom of action than does the present policy. The Soviets would have to act with more care in supporting wars of national liberation and in pushing world revolution, or in employing direct conventional military...
What the revolution needs almost as much as leaders is philosophers. Too many half-rate thinkers have degraded the movement into a vague out-cry against ill-defined systems and for uncertain goals. Pragmatists, students of revolution, and politicians want to know just what they are fighting for and why...
Marcuse wasn't sad. He knows that people are fat and lazy. But the few students who are fighting for his revolution give him hope. When it comes, and the workers realize that the system has failed them, those students will lead it. They are the prophets and Marcuse is...
His view of what society will be after the revolution is the only part of his philosophy which seemed to fall short. "The ideas I find in Marx are still good enough for me," he said. It's very nice to think about a perfect communist society, a classless state...
But how will the revolution come? How will the workers rise, when they don't even know that they must? Marcuse doesn't really know. "I am more encouraged by the prospects than I was when I wrote One Dimensional Man," he said. "The inflation and the student discontent might...