The Disease called Politics (1962)
This article presents a philosophical critique of political systems, arguing that politics is inherently destructive and antithetical to life. It suggests that political power serves to inhibit human growth and is fundamentally disconnected from the needs of living beings.
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It provides a historical perspective on anti-establishment thought, reflecting on the nature of power and societal conflict.
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One of the most passionate critiques of the madness that is politics and why we have to find a way out of this insane game.
Source: Paul Goodman ed., Seeds of Liberation, 1964.
Behind the façade of words and policies and white papers and manifestoes lurks the dark truth. A suicidal pathology is at the root of our politics. How else are we to explain what men are doing all about us? We experience war-scare upon war-scare. But the feverish investors of our society, those supposed epitomes of rational self-interest, are not sent scurrying to the hills by these crises. Instead they stick fast to ground-zero, glued to their telephones, instructing their brokers, “Buy Martin!” “Buy Boeing! The boom is coming!”
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