Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...WAVE APPROACHING shore builds slowly, the glassy, sloped back hiding the roiling currents underneath. The crest grows more and more quickly; the higher it reaches, the more precarious its base becomes. And every time, the wave topples, sometimes earlier and sometimes later, its peak crashing into its middle and exploding in foam...
...argue that their racial approach to the analysis of the Black condition "has benefitted those least in need and has perpetuated the dependency of the underclass." Moreover, we are now to believe that to struggle against racism and class exploitation is to use the Black underclass as a political base from which to "threaten--and extract concessions from the society." Such analysis leads one to assume, that if we did not struggle for better jobs and more equality that the Black underclass would be in a much better condition today...
...gets his own way all the time, or should. Democracy is a process of give and take. But a President who does have a clear sense of direction provides the steady compass by which policymakers can steer. He may have to trade off a dam here for a missile base there, or an agricultural subsidy for a few crucial treaty votes in the Senate. But there will at least be a basic consistency, and a conscious awareness of how and why he deliberately chooses to vary the course, to avoid this shoal or take advantage of that prevailing political wind...
...want to see a society divided into classes; we want to build an egalitarian society. [But] we recognize that there has been a capitalist system in this country that has established a viable infrastructure. We recognize that to overthrow that system would be to create no base at all but to create chaos. Therefore, we cannot go around nationalizing the multinationals. We do not believe in the forcible seizure of property...
Jackson added that he interpreted the vote as "an appeal to base racial instincts," noting liberal Senate losses across the nation...