Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seymour M. Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, said last night he will take a leave of absence from Harvard next year to work on data from the faculty poll...
...direct action and all the nonsense about guerrilla warfare in America leaves little legitimacy among radicals for intellectual concerns. The activist proves his worth by "doing" rather than by "talking." Such theory as will be needed, the argument goes, can be developed as the Movement progresses: a program can work itself...
...this anti-intellectualism which is the greatest weakness of the left today. It is not a surprising characteristic, given the lack of a radical intellectual tradition on which the New Left could draw. The left of the sixties has had to work everything out on its own, and the results were bound to be confused and contradictory. But things shouldn't be allowed to stay that...
...talk of violent rebellion which has accompanied it. There is not going to be a violent revolution in America; the "lessons" of Cuba, China and Vietnam have no particular bearing on this country, and the sooner that American leftists stop freaking out on Third World revolutions, the sooner serious work can begin...
There is a great deal of serious work to be done. Our understanding of the modern American economy needs to be greatly improved, and radical critiques developed. Alternative systems of industrial organization and of education need to be formulated. The whole concept of decentralized democracy needs to be worked out intelligibly and plausibly. In short, credible alternatives to present forms of production and social organization must be proposed...