... . They fought for "human independence." The SDS was looking for a society that didn't "reduce human being[s] to the status of things." In the Port Huron Statement, Hadden and others claimed that our system of government made the public "inherently incapable of directing [their] own affairs." ... fight against that allows them to be individuals. Another angle in the American society that the Port Huron statement opposed was the concept of materialism. They wanted to "replace power rooted in possession, privilege, or circumstance by power and uniqueness rooted in love, reflectiveness, reaso...

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... questioned not only his liberal bias views on Jacksonians and democrats but also his theory of class conflict being the cornerstone of American politics. Bray Hammond with Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War, views the Jacksonians as capitalists, people who concern themselves with the accumulation of goods devoted to the production of other goods. ... point, that the Jacksonians liberals were disguising themselves as compassionate, caring people only to advance their own selfish desires. Edward Pessen, a historian in the 1970's agreed with Hammond's views ...

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