Another angle in the American society that the Port Huron statement opposed was the concept of materialism. ... Materialism and status is important. ... In the document, the SDS discovered a great way to prevent materialism: make money not an issue. ... The statement is clearly directing its speech towards Americans. ... The things that make America great like our individualism, our American dream, our right-fighting students, and our intimidating military power were completely disregarded in the Statement. ...

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During one of the most significant periods of twentieth century America, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. sought to hypothesize the elements of American politics that allowed the United States to escape the Great Depression of 1929, Roosevelt's New Deal, and fight the second world's war, without the federal government becoming a dictatorship. ... The conservative and liberal battles create a conflict in the American social classes, and Schlesinger believed this class conflict to be the factor that saved America. ... It is very plausible that a select group of men that, with so much control o...

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