Original Draft of Port Huron Statement (SDS, 1. With nuclear energy whole cities could easily be powered, but. With rockets we are emancipating man from terrestrial. Mississippi jails still comes the prayer for emancipation. As man's own technology destroys old and creates new forms of. While expanding networks of communication, transportation. While two- thirds of mankind suffers increasing undernourishment. With world population expected to double in forty years, men. Mankind desperately needs visionary and revolutionary leadership. But America rests in. These paradoxes convey tensions which demand the attention of. The newness of them. The complexity of them requires a radical sense of. The. dangers in them, that this is the first generation to know it might be the last. Enter your details below to login. If you are an existing member of The Times and The Sunday Times enjoying the full benefits of thetimes.co.uk, then simply. Note: This story is VERY important. I urge you to share it on all social networks to send the truth VIRAL If you are a truth warrior please Friend Me on Facebook. We are people of this generation, in our late teens and early- or. We are dismayed by the timidity of our elders and the privatism. The organizations we know, in which we are to be socialized as. We write, debate, and assert this manifesto, not as a declaration. Final Cure, but to affirm that problems must be faced with an. In this affirmation we deny. We do this as a basis for an organization, because as students we. America. Our form is tentative—it will change as a response to growth, as. Our goal is to stimulate a left—new and, we think, young. We seek to be public, responsible, and influential—not housed in.
American politics with controversy—not to. On this basis we offer this document: as an effort in. That man should creatively encounter the forces, new and old. The Students. In the last few years, thousands of American students. They moved. actively and directly against racial injustices, the threat of war, violations. They succeeded in restoring a small measure of controversy to the. Mc. Carthy period. They succeeded, too, in. The significance of these scattered . Nor does the. significance lie in the intellectual . The significance is in the fact that. American college life. In truth, student movements for reform are rarities on the. What is commonplace on the campus? The real campus, the familiar campus, is a. It is a. place of commitment to business- as- usual, getting ahead, playing it cool. It is. a place of mass affirmation of the Twist, but mass reluctance toward the. Rules are accepted as . Passive in public, they are hardly more idealistic in. Gallup concludes they will . Attention is paid to social status, the quality of shirt collars. Apathy toward apathy begets a privately constructed universe, a place of. Under these conditions, university life loses all relevance to. Four hundred thousand of us leave college every year. But apathy and alienation are not simply attitudes; they are. The extracurricular life is ordered according to in. Administration as the moral guardian of the young. The bounds and style of controversy are delimited before. The academic world is founded in a. That which is studied, the social reality, is. Thus is the student divided from life by his professor, as the. The academic bureaucracy—the administrators and their pervading. Almost invisibly, too, huge foundations and other private. In summary, the actual intellectual effect. Students leave college more . This is. unsurprising, since the real function of the educational system—as opposed to. That student life is. The fraternity president is seen at the junior manager levels; the. Grosse Pointe; the serious poet burns hopelessly for. The desperation of people. Others declare that the people are withdrawn because compelling. America, but. is Jim Crow gone, is there enough work and work more fulfilling, is world war a. Still. others think that the national quietude is a necessary consequence of the need. Others. finally, shrug knowingly and announce that full democracy never worked anywhere. There are no convincing apologies for the contemporary malaise. But subjective apathy is encouraged by the objective American. Just as the university. The very isolation of the individual—from power and community and. With the great. mass of people structurally remote and psychologically hesitant with respect to. The vital democratic. American Politics. Historically and currently, American politics are built on a. Paradoxically, they. The major parties contain broader. What exists instead of two. Confusion necessarily is built into political. Relevant issues are not raised and debated in a way that affords the. Calcification (under the name of . Frustration is the expectancy of legislators intending serious. In a world demanding rapid change, Congress becomes less and. American decision- making — in foreign policy Congress has but a. World War II. Outside of Congress, the parties view themselves not as vehicles. But politics go beyond. Involved, too, is the. In this contest of organized stalemate, party contradictions. Rather than. protesting conditions, the politicians aggravate them in several ways. While in practice they go about rigging public opinion to their. They respond not to dialogue, but to pressure: and knowing. Perhaps the most. Often. too, the appeal to . Capitalism today. Welfare State. Ours is the first generation to. In many places, workers need not. Thirties, the unrepaired machines. Most of our top unionists have assumed the roles and. Although. our productive capacity is one- fourth idle, two- thirds of all Americans make. We take. for granted the existence and desirability of the New Deal reforms, and we look. The American economy, moreso than the political structure, is. The modern concentration of corporate wealth is. The wealthiest one percent of Americans own more than 8. From World War II until the mid- Fifties, the 5. Profits rise inexorably: United States Steel shipped. To think that the decisions of these economic elites affect. Foreign investments influence political policies in. The drive for sales spurs phenomenal advertising efforts. The arts are organized considerably according to. The tendency to over- production, to commodity. Only 5 percent of all those in the . In 1. 95. 3, personally- owned wealth in the U. S. Of. this sum, $3. This elite comprised l. Their average gross estate estimate was $1. They held 8. 0 percent of all corporation. They receive 4. 0 percent of property. The size of this elite has been relatively. Within existing arrangements, the American business community. Economic minorities. Congress. The only influence. Congressional regulatory and investigating committees—whose powers are. American Telephone. Telegraph is an ideal example of both tendencies, that of irresponsible. To protect its investments. A. T.& T. Further the. Federal Communications Commission negotiated a 6. A. T.& T. Work is accepted for ulterior reasons. In work the. individual is regulated as part of the system. In leisure he is regulated as a. At least 3. 5 million people live beneath the. America, beyond the rehabilitating influence of. Welfare State which is only structured to meet the needs of the lower- middle. Whether newcomers or social remnants who. New Deal reforms, these are the . To the American newspaper audience, . Nothing could be more distorted. To be. sure, some unions are bigger than they were in the past. But the biggest of them. Steel, the communications workers to A. T.& T., the oil workers to Standard. Oil. These enormous disparities still fail to give the accurate picture of the. First, the expectations of the newborn AFL- CIO. The collapse of the dream of . From 1. 5 million members when the AFL and CIO. During the post war generation. Today only 3. 0 percent of all nonagricultural. Second, organizing conditions are going. Where labor is strongest—in industries, for example—automation is. As the number of jobs dwindles, so. In. addition, the American economy has changed radically in the last decade. Labor has almost no. As big government hires more and. America demands new hotels, service stations and the like. Further, there is little indication. South is ripe for labor organization. Finally, there is considerable. Business is aided. It is the most. liberal . More important, however, is the fact that much. Labor's social idealism. The moderate success of the last twenty years struggle has braked. Even the House of Labor has. Not only is this true of the labor elite, but as well of the. The latter are indifferent unionists, willing to strike if the. The general absence of union democracy. Certain problems facing the economy and labor should be seen in a. In their newness and urgency, two problems stand out: the. Automation, the process of machines replacing men in performing. By 1. 95. 9, industrial production regained its. In the Fifties. as a whole, national production enlarged by 4. The electronics industry lost 2. In the steel industry, productive capacity has increased 2. Employment in the. The chemical. industry has enlarged its productive powers 2. A farmer in 1. 96. The United States. Bureau of the Census used 5. Automation is destroying whole categories of. The. consequence of this economic drama, strengthened by the force of three post- war. Americans. But while automation is creating social dislocation of a stunning. In the future, there will be fewer and fewer. For the dominant optimistic. Sadly. America has reacted to the coming of abundance in the same way it has to the. Our reluctance to fully enter economic. Utopia reflects a fear of leaving the . The very basis. of traditional capitalism—profit incentives for private investors, a struggle. Fearing the change of life by abundance. America's leadership. A reformed, more humane capitalism, functioning at three- fourths. America and two- thirds of the world goes needy. However. inadequate, it has brought quiescence—a reflection of the extent to which misery. Now, as a better state becomes visible, a new poverty. The Military- Industrial Complex. Not only is ours the first generation to live with the. American. society. In 1. 94. 8, just when many of us were becoming anxious about our. Congress required a social test of it by establishing Universal. Military Training, the first peacetime conscription. The military bureaucracy.
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