POLI 1100 Lecture Notes - Human Nature, Port Huron Statement, Economic Democracy
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The usa"s students for a democratic society (sds), in the port huron. Statement (1962), acknowledge that many citizens in liberal democratic societies like the usa and canada seem to be politically apathetic. Explain how their analysis of the causes of this apathy differs from the view of anti- democratic writers (consider those who defend what dahl calls. Guardianship ) who express scorn for the political competence of. Operated with idea that human beings are malleable, no one is born fundamentally good or bad etc. Everyone is capable of great things; self-government if given the right education. Similar to marx because in modern economic and political life, we have a status as a worker, tools, factors of production, rather than being creative self determining people; similar to marx"s alienation theory. We oppose the depersonalization that reduces human beings to the statue of things.
