Michael Harrington
Writer
1928-02-24
Books by Michael Harrington
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Socialism
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The Accidental century. --
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Quotes by Michael Harrington
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It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
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Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance.
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There is a familiar America. It is celebrated in speeches and advertised on television and in the magazines. It has the highest mass standard of living the world has ever known.
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For more than fifty years, the Western world has haunted itself with rumors of its own death.
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To be a Negro is to participate in a culture of poverty and fear that goes far deeper than any law for or against discrimination.
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Capitalist man was accomplishing moral and political virtue as well as observing economic reason when he vigorously pursued his personal gain.
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To talk of capitalism as an economic system is the first step away from fatalism.
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Capitalism is moving toward its end massively, imperceptibly, like a glacier. Its decadence is cold, not hot.
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Life is lived in common, but not in community.
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Every President of the United States since Harry Truman has proclaimed that it is the duty of the citizen to consume.
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Once man understands that he is caught up in a blind energy, he transcends it. There is light in the darkness.
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With man more and more ubiquitous, with nature transformed from a mysterious given into a product of the human will, divinity is in crisis.
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The various aspects of decadence cannot be turned into functions of the economy and neither can they be grasped without relating them to this dynamic part of contemporary life.
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Throughout the nineteenth century, there was a conservative existentialism which protested against the rationalization of life in a machine society.
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There was a succession of technological floods, and each new generation looked back to its youth like Father Noah.
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How can can one defend the sober virtues of Protestant individualism by disaffiliating from the world?
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With the appearance of the modern working class, driven to economic and political organization by the necessities of daily life, a social force had come into being that would be impelled toward the theory and practice of justice.
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The very development of the American city has removed poverty from the living, emotional experience of millions upon millions of middle-class Americans.
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The private decision of real-estate developers to ring a city with carefully zoned, relatively expensive suburbs exacerbates racial tensions, segregates education on the basis of color and class, modifies the urban tax base and consequently the political order, and embitters the experience of old age for those who are left behind.
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For the middle class, the police protect property, give directions, and help old ladies. For the urban poor, the police are those who arrest you.
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