This is a major work of history and political theory that traces
radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century,
seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism
today. The question of how citizens should behave as they struggle
to create a more democratic society has haunted the United States
throughout its history. Should citizens restrict themselves to
patient persuasion or take to the streets and seek to impose
change? Marc Stears argues that anyone who continues to wrestle
with these questions could learn from the radical democratic
tradition that was forged in the twentieth century by political
activists, including progressives, trade unionists, civil rights
campaigners, and members of the student New Left.
These activists and their movements insisted that American
campaigners for democratic change should be free to strike out in
whatever ways they thought necessary, so long as their actions
enhanced the political virtues of citizens and contributed to the
eventual triumph of the democratic cause. Reevaluating the moral
and strategic arguments, and the triumphs and excesses, of this
radical democratic tradition, Stears contends that it still offers
a compelling account of citizen behavior--one that is fairer, more
inclusive, and more truly democratic than those advanced by
political theorists today.
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