Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Packwood proposed that to recapture public support, the Republican Party shoud endorse social programs, but should insist that they be run by private businesses. He cited health care and day care for working mothers as programs which could be financed by government but implemented by private companies to eliminate waste
...Christian commitment could only be seriously entertained in America, and it reflects an instinctive, shrewd understanding of the American mind on Jones's part. The religious impulse in America is strong, much stronger, as De Toqueville points out, than in Europe, where religion is allied with politics and the social convention. Here, it suppresses godless ideologies. Yet another side of American nature is pragmatic and utilitarian, desiring rational justification for any act. Jones's philosophy embodied this conflict and, in a sense, mastered it. He could invest himself with religious charisma by using the traditions of American fundamentalist theology: faith...
...There is enough in the world to fill our needs but not our greeds," Hazel Henderson, co-director of the Princeton Center for Alternative Futures, said last night at a panel discussion at the Kennedy School with about 35 people with Henderson and Ira Einhorn, social activist and fellow of the Institute of Politics, as moderators...
Henderson discussed the inequities of the present system of social organization, stressing the manipulative role of bureaucracy and government and the need for oppressed members of society to take action to change the system...
...industrial world is suffering from "institutional sclerosis," Henderson said. She urged people to reorganize the present social system into one whose objectives are "smaller scale technologies and industries which don't create horrendous social effects...