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For if you turn out to be living in an evil empire (rather than, as you had been told, a democracy fighting an evil empire), then you have no responsibility to your country; you are accountable only to humanity. If what your government and your teachers are saying is all part of the same Orwellian monologue – if the differences between the Harvard faculty and the military-industrial complex, or between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater, are negligible – then you have a responsibility to make a revolution.
Mit anderen Worten: Der Staat und seine Institutionen werden grundsätzlich komplett abgelehnt, und als nicht rettbar korrupt betrachtet, und damit fallen auch alle pragmatische und auf Zusammenarbeit und Kompromissfindung basierenden Maßnahmen weg, die man so machen könnte, und es bleibt nur noch die Revolution.From his perspective, the problem was the total rejection of pragmatic reform. The belief that there was nothing in America that could be salvaged, no institutions that could be corrected, no laws worth passing, led to the complete abandonment of conventional politics. Persuasion was replaced by self-expression; policy reform by recrimination.