Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ordinarily we would try to fight the inevitable disaster by effecting social and political change. But you and I both know how hopeless that is. As we watch Procaccino gurgle to victory in November, we can kiss goodbye to the electorate. Then we can turn to the RYM, PL, the CP, the WSA, SDS, the P and FP, the BP, BDRG, and the Weathermen. And even if we pulled off a fantastic proletarian revolution right away and started reorganizing everything, it would be 50 years before they got around to air pollution. And the world will be long gone...
...plan for disciplining Faculty was developed by the Committee of Fifteen to serve as an interim measure until it can devise a final plan. The proposal is roughly similar to the controversial procedures used to discipline Jack R. Stauder 61, instructor in Social Anthropology, and the highest ranking Corporation appointee arrested at University Hall...
While self-consciously staying away from questions like Defense Department contracts or government-academic incest, Nader turned up other sorespots where the unversities have abdicated any sense of social justice. Universities are supposed to be the best information gatherers: why don't we know anything about the large corporations? The university-trained mind is supposed to zero in on important questions: why do the academics always wait for the government or the corporations to point out social problems? The universities obviously develop new roles for men to fill in the social web: why has M. I. T. placed so many...
...hard nosed militant action on many campuses. His analysis of the failure of the universities is far more elegant and detailed than one charging Complicity With the War Machine or Oppressing Poor Tenants. In a more general attack, Nader showed how the university's professional schools were ignoring their social tasks. Medical schools don't teach prevention: law schools train corporate lawyers; economists never learn to question the costs of a corporate economy...
...stacked up against the amount of intellectual acumen and resources available." As a consequence of this abdication, corporate America has been able to mount an institutionalized assault on everything of value in American society: the free choice marketplace is a hoax: the Great Lakes verge on irreversible pollution; the social system is "productive but imbalanced...