SOCIOL 4SS3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Port Huron Statement, Bureaucratic Collectivism, Neoconservatism
18 Dec 2019
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Always described as the author of the other america, the book that sparked the war on poverty not noticing his other books: his major works were important to him, the other america not one of them. Wrote the other america, downhill after that": how he is remembered, rest of his work forgotten. Committed to building a serious social democratic tradition in his country: settled for being americas leading socialist. Became depressed from unexpected fame pretended nothing had changed but denial intensified the war within: he felt guilty about the money he had made. To him, the key decision of his life had to do w opting for the right kind of anticommunism. When he agreed w the antiwar movement many of his socialists and unionist saw it as a betrayal: shachtman argued that the war should be judge on a political not moral basis.
