influence the electorate after their massive Presidential defeat in 1964.
that groups such as the LIPA can encourage integration of intelligence and power in
social geography only through a process over time should be taken in this spirit.
Although no one can say whether, if perused with more vigor, more tactical skill
and proceeding with more luck, Dewey’s plan to encourage citizen autonomy and defeat
social domination would have been successful. But what remains important is that his
understanding of the nature of power could have relevance for today. Although it may
seem counterintuitive to eschew introducing new policies and criticizing political
opponents and instead encourage citizens to attempt to look at the knowledge they
already possess in a different manner as a plan to combat power, in light of the
prevalence of great waves of space-time compression due to increasing economic
strategies of flexible accumulation, encouraging wider-understanding of social geography
might actually seem more plausible as a political strategy. When linked with more
traditional understandings of power, Dewey’s view should be taken more seriously,
especially in these “liquid” political times.
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Pearlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus.
New York: Hill and Wang, 2002.
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