Word: utopianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where the utopian left felt more than a generalized mistrust of power, it objected to both the foreign and domestic policies of the administration. In foreign affairs, some regarded the cold war as the invention of the military-industrial complex and supposed that, if only Washington changed its course, Moscow and Peking would gladly collaborate in building a peaceful world...
...Efficiency. In Labor politics, Jenkins has always been on the right: pro-Europe, pro-NATO, ill at ease with the party's radical, Utopian socialists. He was long in Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskells inner circle. When Wilson became Prime Minister last year, he offered Jenkins what many insiders considered a noose to hang a potential rival: the Ministry of Aviation, which was faced with the politically delicate task of arranging sharp cutbacks in Britain's aircraft production. Jenkins did the job with elan and efficiency, earning the promotion to Home Secretary. This post, too, will test his mettle...
Accepting Keniston's premises and analyses--the sureness of his observations and the permanence of his subjects' uncommitment--what remedy does he prescribe? He urges the unleashing of the utopian impulse. "What is needed is to free that impulse once again, to redirect it toward the creation of a better society. We too often attempt to patch up our threadbare values and outworn purposes; we too rarely dare imagine a society radically different from our own." This moralism has become a commonplace in recent political thought, as has the demonstration that it is unlikely to occur. It is as fatuous...
Beyond any Common Market compromise, a basic conflict will remain. On one side are the federalists-or "Federasts," as the more Utopian advocates of the cause are sometimes called-who feel that no single European nation can ever again play the Great Power, that the only true power on the continent must be a united Europe. On the other side is De Gaulle, who argues in ringing 19th century tones that each country must enjoy unrestricted nationalism in order to be, and to feel, strong. Admittedly, he has made France feel stronger than it has in decades. Only through...
...recommendations are, in one special sense utopian... We did not much concern ourselves with costs. Clearly, improvement in education, as elsewhere, requires funds. The proposals we have made for increased staffing in certain Areas, for improved and expanded relations with school systems and clinical facilities, for improved supervisory arrangements, for a reduction of Masters' level commitments concurrent with an extension to a "one year plus" design--all of these presuppose considerable financial support. They also presuppose a relatively peaceful world...