Port Huron Statement The Vision Call of the 1960s Revolution

Name: Port Huron Statement The Vision Call of the 1960s Revolution
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ISBN: 9781560257417

ISBN-10: 1560257415

ISBN-13: 9781560257417

Edition: 2006

Authors: Tom Hayden

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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…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 8/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.50" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



The way we were and the future of the Port Huron statement


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