The Prerequisite For An Ideology Is Possession

Organization For Action Will Now And In The Decade Ahead Center Upon America's White Middle Class. That Is Where The Power Is. ... Our Rebels Have Contemptuously Rejected The Values And The Way Of Life Of The Middle Class. They Have Stigmatized It As Materialistic, Decadent, Bourgeois, Degenerate, Imperialistic, War-mongering, Brutalized And Corrupt. They Are Right; But We Must Begin From Where We Are If We Are To Build Power For Change, And The Power And The People Are In The Middle Class Majority.

In This World Laws Are Written For The Lofty Aim Of "the Common Good" And Then Acted Out In Life On The Basis Of The Common Greed. In This World Irrationality Clings To Man Like His Shadow So That The Right Things Get Done For The Wrong Reasons - Afterwards, We Dredge Up The Right Reasons For Justification. It Is A World Not Of Angels But Of Angles, Where Men Speak Of Moral Principles But Act On Power Principles; A World Where We Are Always Moral And Our Enemies Always Immoral; A World Where "reconciliation" Means That When One Side Gets The Power And The Other Side Gets Reconciled To It.

Change Means Movement. Movement Means Friction. Only In The Frictionless Vacuum Of A Nonexistent Abstract World Can Movement Or Change Occur Without That Abrasive Friction Of Conflict.

The Fact That People Are Poor Or Discriminated Against Doesn't Necessarily Endow Them With Any Special Qualities Of Justice, Nobility, Charity Or Compassion.

Organized Business Has Assumed That Greater Profits Would Be Pretty Much Of A Cure-all, And It Has To A Major Extent Ignored The Fact That The Welfare Of Business Rests Upon The Welfare Of The Consumers Of A Nation; That Business Or Free Enterprise Will Function In A Democracy Only So Long As The Democracy Functions.