No One Can Be Truly Powerful Unless

The Mass Production Of Distraction Is Now As Much A Part Of The American Way Of Life As The Mass Production Of Automobiles.

Any Contemporary Political Re-statement Of Liberal And Socialist Goals Must Include As Central The Idea Of A Society In Which All Men Would Become Men Of Substantive Reason, Whose Independent Reasoning Would Have Structural Consequences For Their Societies, Its History And Thus For Their Own Life Fates.

For The First Time In American History, Men In Authority Are Talking About An 'emergency' Without A Foreseeable End... Such Men As These Are Crackpot Realists: In The Name Of Realism They Have Constructed A Paranoid Reality All Their Own.

People With Advantages Are Loath To Believe That They Just Happen To Be People With Advantages.

To Have Peace And Not War, The Drift Toward A War Economy, As Facilitated By The Moves And The Demands Of The Sophisticated Conservatives, Must Be Stopped; To Have Peace Without Slump, The Tactics And Policies Of The Practical Right Must Be Overcome. The Political And Economic Power Of Both Must Be Broken. The Power Of These Giants Of Main Drift Is Both Economically And Politically Anchored; Both Unions And An Independent Labor Party Are Needed To Struggle Effective.