We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual
participation governed by two central aims: that the individual
share in those social decisions determining the quality and
direction of his life; that society be organized to encourage
independence in men and provide the media for their common
participation . . ." --from the "PORT HURON STATEMENT"
Four key periods in American history have most influenced what
America is like today: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World
War II, and the 1960s. No document better frames and explains the
1960s than the "PORT HURON STATEMENT,"
The statement was a generational call for direct participatory
democracy in which Americans would have greater say over the
decisions affecting their lives. It called for the extension of
democratic principles to the workplace as well as the electoral
arena. It opposed the dominance of the military-industrial complex
with the hope that social movements could reform the Democrats as a
party of progressive opposition. In its vision greater democracy
would lessen individuals' alienation.
The manifesto's 1962 publication preceded the phenomena of the
counter-culture, hippies and back-to-the-land. It is truly the
intellectual roots of the social change of the 1960s and its impact
is still being felt in 2005. In "The Big Lebowksi," the character
played by Jeff Bridges claimed authorship; it was condemned by
right-wing justice Robert Bork, recalled with nostalgia by Garry
Wills and E.J. Dionne, and sections have been printed in countless
readers on American history.
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