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The Telmarc Group PROGRESSIVISM, INDIVIDUALISM, AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL common today in science and engineering departments, in fact he cost money. His conflicts in his tenure at Chicago were in many ways the driving element for his revolt against the system. His movement to Columbia thus provided him with the resources to promulgate his agenda. Hofstadter then continues to list the players: "The roll of distinguished social scientists of the Progressive era…John R Commons, Richard T Ely, E R A Seligman,…Thorstein Veblen…,Charles A Beard, Arthur F Bentley and Allen Smith…E A Ross, Lester Ward, John Dewey, …Roscoe Pound… 83 " These were but a few of the growing number of "public intellectuals" who came forth during this period. 4.3.6 Anti Individualism Now we can come to the main point of the discussion regarding Dewey. Namely his intense anti-individualism. He was strongly opposed to the principle of the rights of the individual. He was a believer in "society", a term he used again and again, and as a Progressive he was a true believer in the need to have a strong Government to oversee and control that society. As we have seen, in education, the intent was less to truly educate that to train young minds how to benefit the society, the Government, akin to say the Hitler youth is one were to stretch a point, and secondly he had his enemies list with the Catholic Church and Catholics in general at the top. If he had his was he would find a means to eliminate all Catholics by any means. Westbrook states: "The democratic ideal, Dewey told his class….was embodied in the slogan of the French Revolution: liberty, equality , fraternity….."individuality operating in and for the end of the common interest" 84 Here Dewey states the key element, individuality, individualism, is subordinated to the society, the end of the common interest. Yet who is to determine that, the majority, and what rights are left to the individual, the Brandeis right to "be left alone". The right to practice your religion, not if you are a Catholic, the right to read what you want, not if it violates the demands of society. Dewey is filled with conflict. Unless of course you do what he commands. 83 See Hofstadter TAR p 154. 84 Westbrook p. 93 Page 78
The Telmarc Group PROGRESSIVISM, INDIVIDUALISM, AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL Boisvert tells the tale of the ship the Arbella which brought Winthrop and his followers to New England. His sermon to the passengers when they arrived is described by Boisvert as follows: "The dominant images he employed were those of "fabric knit together" and "brotherhood". Notably absent from his discourse were two themes which have come to dominate the subsequent political life of the country, freedom and equality." 85 Boisvert speaks of Winthrop focusing on the inequality and diversity of the people and thus their need to bon together as a "society". He was stating that every man needed each other. The validity of this is true in any society since there is a need to have commence of many forms and this banding means that one person can interact in a civil manner with another. However one should consider the option where a person whats to be left alone, left as an individual, and is that right permitted. One would argue that under the US Constitution it is, and again I reach back to Brandeis. Boisvert then goes on to compare Locke to Winthrop, the group versus the individual. 86 He contrasted the Winthrop community of unequals and the need to band together and the Locke set of equal individuals and the emphasis on the sanctity of property and the preservation of individual rights. Boisvert summarizes: "…the fruits of Dewey's reflections can be summarized as follows. The gap that separates Winthrop from Locke need not be as deep as it at first appears. Empirical naturalism offers a network of ideas within which the democratic aspirations of Locke can be coordinated with the concrete communal ideals of Winthrop. Dewey's rethinking of political theory…involves a fundamental retranslation of political terminology. "Democracy", "individual", "freedom", "equality", and the "public" take on new significance…" 87 Thus Dewey redefines the terms we had built a country upon so that they fit his societal and Progressive vision. This is a classic case of propaganda manipulation and having the new platform of public intellectual it allows him to spread this rapidly to others in his clan. Boisvert then continues with the following quote from Dewey 88 : 85 Boisvert p. 49. 86 Boisvert pp 50-51. 87 Boisvert p. 51. 88 Boisvert pp 68-69. Page 79
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