Ibm Plus Reality Plus Humanism

The Life-fate Of The Modern Individual Depends Not Only Upon The Family Into Which He Was Born Or Which He Enters By Marriage, But Increasingly Upon The Corporation In Which He Spends The Most Alert Hours Of His Best Years.

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.

What One Side Considers A Defense The Other Considers A Threat. In The Vortex Of The Struggle, Each Is Trapped By His Own Fearful Outlook And By His Fear Of The Other; Each Moves And Is Moved Within A Circle Both Vicious And Lethal.

Neither The Life Of An Individual Nor The History Of A Society Can Be Understood Without Understanding Both.

Power Is Not Of A Man. Wealth Does Not Center In The Person Of The Wealthy. Celebrity Is Not Inherent In Any Personality. To Be Celebrated, To Be Wealthy, To Have Power Requires Access To Major Institutions.