Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrary, one is faced with a decision. Either America's political parties must reform their attitudes toward campaigning and their methods of doing so, or a system must be found in which the role of political parties in organizing and stimulating the electorate will be superceded. If neither of these alternatives are taken, it is certain that the vitality of American democracy will further decline...
...alternatives, the reform of the political process seems the method least likely to produce instability and disruption of the system...
...reform from within seems more difficult if one considers that the parties must initiate it. For those within the system it requires a faith in the democratic process larger than their desire for political office; for eventually any system that encourages participation will encourage challenges to the ruling elite. Even starting a new party dedicated to new methods and begun with more of a reliance on the electorate would not insure that if it won acceptance and gained power the same reaction would...
...other alternative, that of a system which supercedes political parties, is likely to produce more instability. This is probable because of it does into organize as a party which seeks political office, it will always represent so direct a challenge to those people who do hold power that it will probably provoke a violent and overwhelming response from the ruling class...
...decisions over their lives, and he encourages dialogue on all the essential issues which face the individual. Recognizing the revolutionary, and laudable, aims of this group, it still worries me that all their intentions and methods are bound to cause to kind of disruption that will provide the system of power with an excuse to crush...