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Liberal FASCISM 180 BUILDING A POLITICS OF MEANING Huron Statement, the

signature document of the New Left, was for nli itc nverwrought verbiage a well-
intentioned statement of democratic optimism and admirable honesty. The
authorschief among Their aim was to create a po1itical system that would restore
"human meaning" (whatever that is). "The goal of man and society," they insisted,
"should be human indeDendence: a concem not with image of populanty but
with finding a meaning in life that is personally authentic." This urge for "realized
potential for self-cultivation, self-direction, understanding, and creativity."31 And then
there was the quest for community. The Red Diaper Babies of the 1960s inherited
from their parents the same drive to create a new community organized around
political aspirations. the movement, the beloved community itself, where we might
be able to find in Yale psychologist Kenneth Keniston's words, 'the qualities of
warmth, communion, acceptedness, dependence and intimacy which existed in
childhood.' " Mark Rudd likewise remi'"'hrase for liberals and leftists alike in the
1960s was "commu''""" "community action" "community outreach," "communities
of mutual respect"

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