Asking A Sociologist To Solve

Organization For Action Will Now And In The Decade Ahead Center Upon America's White Middle Class. That Is Where The Power Is. ... Our Rebels Have Contemptuously Rejected The Values And The Way Of Life Of The Middle Class. They Have Stigmatized It As Materialistic, Decadent, Bourgeois, Degenerate, Imperialistic, War-mongering, Brutalized And Corrupt. They Are Right; But We Must Begin From Where We Are If We Are To Build Power For Change, And The Power And The People Are In The Middle Class Majority.

Our World Has Always Had Two Kinds Of Changers, The Social Changers And The Money Changers.

Spouting Quotes From Mao, Castro, And Che Guevara, Which Are As Germane To Our Highly Technological, Computerized, Cybernetic, Nuclearpowered, Mass Media Society As A Stagecoach On A Jet Runway At Kennedy Airport.

Radicals, On The Other Hand, Want To Advance From The Jungle Of Laissez-faire Capitalism To A World Worthy Of The Name Of Human Civilization. They Hope For A Future Where The Means Of Economic Production Will Be Owned By All Of The People Instead Of Just A Comparative Handful. They Feel That This Minority Control Of Production Facilities Is Injurious To The Large Masses Of People Not Only Because Of Economic Monopolies But Because The Political Power Inherent In This Form Of Centralized Economy Does Not Augur For An Ever Expanding Democratic Way Of Life.

In The Beginning The Organizer's First Job Is To Create The Issues Or Problems.