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171 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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"First published by Students for a Democratic Society, the student Department of the League for Industrial Democracy New York, 1962"--Title page verso. |
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"With a new introduction by the author"--Cover. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The way we were and the future of the Port Huron Statement -- Introductory note -- Introduction : agenda for a generation -- Values -- The students -- The society beyond -- Politics without publics -- The economy -- The individual in the warfare state -- Deterrence policy -- The colonial revolution -- Anti-communism -- Communism and foreign policy -- Discrimination -- What is needed? -- The industrialization of the world -- Toward American democracy -- Alternatives to helplessness -- The university and social change. |
| Summary |
"We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisions determining the quality and direction of his life; that society be organized to encourage independence in men and provide the media for their common participation..."--from The Port Huron Statement. Four key periods in American history have most influenced what America is like today: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War II, and the 1960s. No document better frames and explains the 1960s than the Port Huron Statement. The statement was a generational call for direct participatory democracy in which Americans would have greater say over the decisions affecting their lives. It called for the extension of democratic principles to the workplace as well as the electoral arena. It opposed the dominance of the military-industrial complex with the hope that social movements could reform the Democrats as a party of progressive opposition. In its vision greater democracy would lessen individuals' alienation. The manifesto's 1962 publication preceded the phenomena of the counter-culture, hippies and back-to-the-land. It is truly the intellectual roots of the social change of the 1960s and its impact is still being felt in 2005.--Publisher's description. |
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College students -- Political activity -- United States -- 20th century.
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Student movements -- United States -- 20th century.
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New Left -- United States -- 20th century.
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Democracy -- United States -- 20th century.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963.
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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
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