Common Man’s Masterplan
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PART ONE: ORIGINS OF THE CRISIS.
1. The collapse of the institutional system of the nineteenth century was not caused by the conflict of ambitious empires, warring ideologies or even a single massive event like World War I, but by anunder lying process of vast scope the origins of which reach far back into the social and industrial history of the period.
This view point allows us to dissociate the world crisis … […]
PART TWO: THE STATE OF THE WORLD
2. The unsolved problems which forced the great transformation upon us imperatively demand their solution in and after this war.
This view point will allow […]
Consequences:
The Fall of France
The British Appeasement policy. etc.
PART THREE: FREEDOM ON TRIAL
[2] 3. As in every previous phase in the history of Western civilization, external influences form the decisive factor in the development of national life. The survival of democracy depends upon the measure of its …
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The freedoms of arbitrary rejection of job to be limited.
The freedom of arbitrary dismaissal limited.
The freedom of unlimited profits limited.
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The concept of freedom reformed. Christianity transcended. The philosophy of the common man established.
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[4] The new politics demand a new broadcasting service.
The exploded theories include:
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The true axioms replacing these are:
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The axioms involve:
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[5] This leaves room for an entirely new type of political comment, which only needs a touch of humor to camouflage its academic origins. It might be called, for instance, 'Ignoring the obvious', or 'Through the Looking Glass' or 'The wrong end of the Telescope' or 'Seeing the Forest and the Trees' or 'Afterthoughts and perspectives', or similarly expressive of the slightly removed viewpoints. Actually, […]
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First - that the masses have no political judgment of their own. As against that you […]
Second - Listen to the people's arguments political in discussion. [7] the […]
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Now I come to a second fallacy on the masses and on democracy, and it is that democracy is simply a matter of education.
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Common Mans's Masterplan
Draft of MS for Farrar & Rinehart
[16] This book is addressed to the general reader and discusses the urgent problems of our time from the point of view of the common man.
While the various shades of anti-democrats each have their own story of the world catastrophe - the democrat has yet to produce __ his own.
This story should tell in simple language how it all started; where responsibility […]
… a right much too [17] frequently trodden under foot by the selfless governments […] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] for all minorities - racial, religious, regional or otherwise - made effective with a single-mindedness modelled England achievement.
Document Informations
Reference:
Date: 1943-1944?
KPA: 20/04
Recent Publication in English: in Polanyi 2018b, p. 177-186