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A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.

A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.

Paul Goodman
Successful, Community, Adequate
Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.195, New York Review of Books

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

Paul Goodman
Powerful, People, Community
Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.38, New York Review of Books

When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.

Paul Goodman
Cities, Community, Village
Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance.

Paul Goodman
Artist, Men, Community
Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 153), 1956.

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