Word: socio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About half of the weekend canvassers were with us that day in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights. At the briefing session that morning in the neighborhood campaign headquarters, we had been given the necessary politico-socio-economic background, in order to know what to expect...
...lightning bolts and burning huts alone will not long illuminate nor eliminate the systemic flaws in American society. The radical reconstruction of a socio-economic order requires both what Marcuse calls "the critical theory of society" and an enduring and expanding radical movement within society to carry theory into practice. Only this assumption will have the skill and the strength to outlast the repressions and resources of corporate America. Otherwise, all the good works performed by radicals on the surface of American society will be like those desert flowers, so brilliant and short-lived, that whither with the first long...
...pursued with the length and the depth necessary to make them more than mere ephemeral desert flowers in the realm of the mind. Among the great purposes of the university is to be the refuge and the strength of a critical theory of society. Of course, in the existing socio-economic system, radical scholars will form only a part of any university and probably a small part at that...
...reasons are many; they include not only the interests of socio-economic elites but the individual ideas and temperaments of young men about to embark on a scholarly life. But the proposition of radicals to conventionals will be far smaller in any other durable institution...
Again, radical scholars will form only a part of the CFIA. but here the reasons do not include the interests of socio-economic elites but only the individual ideas and temperaments of the men who study politics and economics in contemporary America. And. not surprisingly, the proportion of radical scholars (there are many more than the recently cited figure of two) to conventional ones in the CFIA is as high as it is in any of the Harvard Departments, and it is certainly higher in the CFIA than it is in the political science departments of any other American university...