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"Beyond Usual Politics" is the name of a statement reprinted by the 
National Organization for an American Revolution (NOAR).  This 
statement and others on various topics can be ordered from 
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Below is an excerpt from the statement, "Beyond Usual Politics"

"NEW QUESTIONS REQUIRING NEW ANSWERS

WHAT, WHEN AND HOW DO WE NEED TO PRODUCE AND CONSUME - not in order 
'to keep the economy going' but to develop our collective self-
reliance, our collective pride in our communities and in workmanship, 
and to satisfy our human need to live more meaningful lives?  Should 
we demand that auto plants stay open just so that auto workers can 
keep working - or should we close them down, knowing that his will 
mean a general cutback in our standard of living, until we discover 
what kind of transportation we need to provide both mobility and 
meaningful social contact among ourselves, instead of increasing 
pollution, traffic jams, streets emptied of pedestrians, and 50,000 
auto deaths a year?

WHAT KIND OF HOMES, SCHOOLS, WORKPLACES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS DO WE NEED 
to enable us to relate to one another as human beings, to raise 
children who will be self-reliant as well as eager to help others, 
and to encourage everyone, women and men, the old and the young, to 
live more productive and less alienated lives?  Should young people 
be kept in schools, just because there are no jobs for them?  Or 
should we close down the schools - even if millions of teachers are 
laid off - until we discover the purpose of education in an age of 
automation?

CAN NEW YORK CITY EVER BE MADE LIVABLE WITHOUT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE 
MOVING OUT?  CAN THE BIG CITIES EVER SOLVE THE GARBAGE PROBLEM as 
long as people throw paper, bottles and rubbish all over the streets -
because we now believe that sanitation is the special job of 
sanitation workers, just as we believe that education is the special 
job of teachers, health the special job of doctors, and politics the 
special job of politicians?

HOW CAN WE STOP DRUG ADDICTION AS LONG AS TV COMMERCIALS KEEP PUSHING
DRUGS AS THE INSTANT SOLUTION TO ALL OUR PROBLEMS?  WHY CAN'T WE 
FIGHT CRIME by pledging with one another not to buy 'hot goods' - thus
showing in practice that we value our social ties with our neighbors 
more than we value material things?

SHOULD TV BROADCASTING BE RESTRICTED TO CERTAIN HOURS OF THE DAY - 
not just to save energy but to save millions of Americans from 
becoming vegetables, challenging all of us to renew our contacts 
with our neighbors, with ourselves, and with Nature?

 
We cannot live meaningful lives as long as we evade discussing and 
deciding such questions - difficult as they are - in terms of what 
will further the human development of each one of us, of this country,
and of the human species.  Only through political struggles over 
issues of this importance can we create communities out of what are 
today only geographical neighborhoods.  We will not always make the 
correct decisions; and even when we do, new contradictions will arise
- because Man/Womankind and this nation are still evolving.  But we 
can't keep delegating this responsibility to those who we know have 
been elected by special interest groups and then blame them because 
their decisions lead us into one crisis after another.
	
Up to now, most people have thought of politics as just a clash 
between special interests for a bigger 'piece of the pie.'  Radicals 
and militants of all kinds have been chiefly concerned with 
redistribution of goods.  Now we must recognize that politics is not 
chiefly a question of redistribution.  It is a question of, first, 
deciding what kind of society we want to live in and, then, 
participating in the continuing political struggles necessary to 
create and develop that kind of society."

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