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BLOG, AKA ONLINE NEWSLETTER: Sign Up to Receive Monthly Article Alerts Selected E-mails to the Editor ARCHIVES: ARCHIVE A: Access Past Mark Satin Articles, 2005- Present ARCHIVE B: Access Past Mark Satin Articles, 1999- 2004 ARCHIVE X: Access Past John Avlon Articles, 2004-06 RADICAL MIDDLE, THE BOOK: RESPOND TO OUR ARTICLES AND VIEW OTHERS' RESPONSES: Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2008 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2007 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2006 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2005 Feisty Letters to the Editor, 2002-04 Feisty Letters to the Editor, 1999-2001 WHO WE ARE: About the Editor (In-House Version) About the Editor (By Marilyn Ferguson) About Our Wonderful Pledgers -- and How You Can Join Them About Our Directors and Advisors About Our Sponsor, the Center for Visionary Law RADICAL MIDDLE CONGRES- SIONAL SCORECARDS: 109th and 110th Congresses (2005-08) RADICAL MIDDLE POLITICAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS: SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE BOOKS: 50 Best "Third Way" Books of the 1990s 25 Best "Transformational" Books of the 1980s 25 Best "New Age Politics" Books of the 1970s SOME PRIOR BOOKS BY MARK SATIN: New Options for America (book drawn from New Options News- letter, 1983-92) |
25 Best “New Age” Political Books of the 1970s The Seventies were an exciting time: Although the New Left collapsed, a new political movement -- oriented more to ecology, voluntary simplicity and sexual liberation than socialism -- came to the fore. Detractors called it the “New Age” movement, but from the beginning it struggled to develop a coherent new analysis of society and strategy for social change (see New World Alliance elsewhere on this website). Today many New Age political ideas, dressed up in more sober garb, have entered and are continuing to enter the mainstream. Some are called “radical centrist” or “radical middle” ideas, a concept popularized by Marilyn Ferguson in her 1980 bestseller, The Aquarian Conspiracy. The following books were the backbone of that movement. Most of them hold up well. And they’re far more visionary than what’s coming off the presses today -- which suggests, sadly, that the sense of possibility in the Seventies was far greater than it is today. The list was created by Mark Satin, editor of Radical Middle Newsletter, in collaboration with former members of the New World Alliance, a national New Age political organization active from 1979-83. Radical Middle will receive a 15% referral fee (at no
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. . .) Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia Herman Daly, Steady-State Economics. Out of print. But see his For the Common Good Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating. Out of print. But see her Letters from a War Zone: Writings, 1976-1989 Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? Willis Harman, An Incomplete Guide to the Future. Out of print. But see his Global Mind Change Hazel Henderson, Creating Alternative Futures: The End of Economics John Holt, Escape from Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality Amory Lovins, Soft Energy Paths. Out of print. But see his Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution Donella and Dennis Meadows, The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome. Out of print. But see their Beyond the Limits Kate Millett, Sexual Politics Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power: The Myth of the Machine Michael Phillips, The Seven Laws of Money Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values James Robertson, The Sane Alternative: A Choice of Futures Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends. Out of print. But see his The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise Mark Satin, New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered Philip Slater, Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point William Irwin Thompson, At the Edge of History and Passages About Earth Alvin Toffler, Future Shock Barbara Ward, The Home of Man William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions |
THE RADICAL MIDDLE CONCEPT: Over 40 Good People (Try to) Describe the Radical Middle 50 Best Radical Middle Books of the '00s (so far) Five Best Radical Middle Magazines, annotated Over 20 Arguably Radical Middle National POLITICIANS GREAT RADICAL MIDDLE GROUPS AND BLOGS: NEW: Over 50 Great Radical Centrist Blogs - all with their bloggers named and described! NOT JUST RADICAL MIDDLE: Ten Best U.S. Political Novels, annotated 25 RED- HOT RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Information Technology & Innovation Foundation Institute for Alternative Futures National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation Republican Main Street Partnership SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES: Generational Equity and Communitarian platforms,1990s U.S. Green Party's "Ten Key Values" statement, 1980s Civil Rights Movement, 1960s (your editor is HERE, 6th from bottom) |