| PAGE | ||
| Introduction | [3] | |
| Part I THE GROUP PRINCIPLE | ||
|---|---|---|
| I. | The Group and the New Psychology | [19] |
| II. | The Group Process: the Collective Idea | [24] |
| III. | The Group Process: the Collective Idea (continued) | [33] |
| IV. | The Group Process: the Collective Feeling | [44] |
| V. | The Group Process: the Collective Will | [48] |
| VI. | The Unit of the Social Process | [50] |
| VII. | The Individual | [60] |
| VIII. | Who is the Free Man? | [69] |
| IX. | The New Individualism | [73] |
| X. | Society | [75] |
| XI. | The Self-and-Others Illusion | [79] |
| XII. | The Crowd Fallacy | [85] |
| XIII. | The Secret of Progress | [93] |
| XIV. | The Group Principle at Work | [105] |
| XV. | From Contract to Community | [122] |
| Part II THE TRADITIONAL DEMOCRACY | ||
| XVI. | Democracy not “Liberty” and “Equality”: Our Political Dualism | [137] |
| XVII. | Democracy not the Majority: Our Political Fallacy | [142] |
| XVIII. | Democracy not the Crowd: Our Popular Delusion | [148] |
| XIX. | The True Democracy | [156] |
| XX. | The Growth of Democracy in America | [162] |
| XXI. | After Direct Government—What? | [174] |
| Part III GROUP ORGANIZATION DEMOCRACY’S METHOD | ||
| 1. THE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP | ||
| XXII. | Neighborhood Needs the Basis of Politics | [189] |
| XXIII. | An Integrated Neighborhood | [204] |
| XXIV. | Neighborhood Organization vs. Party Organization: The Will of the People | [216] |
| XXV. | Neighborhood Organization vs. Party Organization: Leaders or Bosses? | [227] |
| XXVI. | Neighborhood Organization vs. Party Organization: A Responsible Neighborhood | [232] |
| XXVII. | From Neighborhood to Nation: the Unifying State | [245] |
| 2. THE OCCUPATIONAL GROUP | ||
| XXVIII. | Political Pluralism | [258] |
| XXIX. | Political Pluralism and Sovereignty | [271] |
| XXX. | Political Pluralism and Functionalism: The Service State vs. The “Sovereign State” | [288] |
| XXXI. | Political Pluralism and the True Federal State | [296] |
| XXXII. | Political Pluralism (concluded) | [311] |
| XXXIII. | Increasing Recognition of the Occupational Group | [320] |
| Part IV THE DUAL ASPECT OF THE GROUP: A UNION OF INDIVIDUALS, AN INDIVIDUAL IN A LARGER UNION | ||
| XXXIV. | The Moral State and Creative Citizenship | [333] |
| XXXV. | The World State | [344] |
| Appendix | ||
| The Training for the New Democracy | [363] | |
THE NEW STATE
THE NEW STATE
INTRODUCTION
OUR political life is stagnating, capital and labor are virtually at war, the nations of Europe are at one another’s throats—because we have not yet learned how to live together. The twentieth century must find a new principle of association. Crowd philosophy, crowd government, crowd patriotism must go. The herd is no longer sufficient to enfold us.
Group organization is to be the new method in politics, the basis of our future industrial system, the foundation of international order. Group organization will create the new world we are now blindly feeling after, for creative force comes from the group, creative power is evolved through the activity of the group life.
We talk about the evils of democracy. We have not yet tried democracy. Party or “interests” govern us with some fiction of the “consent of the governed” which we say means democracy. We have not even a conception of what democracy means. That conception is yet to be forged out of the crude ore of life.
We talk about the tragedy of individualism. The individual we do not yet know, for we have no methods to release the powers of the individual. Our particularism—our laissez-faire, our every-man-for-his-own-interests—has little to do with true individualism, that is, with the individual as consciously responsible for the life from which he draws his breath and to which he contributes his all.
Politics do not need to be “purified.” This thought is leading us astray. Politics must be vitalized by a new method. “Representative government,” party organization, majority rule, with all their excrescences, are dead-wood. In their stead must appear the organization of non-partisan groups for the begetting, the bringing into being, of common ideas, a common purpose and a collective will.