Look What has Been Grafted Onto America: Communitarianism

Ed.'s note: Amitai Etzioni born Werner Falk, is a German-born now Jewish-American sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism. Etzioni's alma mater is the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He founded the Communitarian Network, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to supporting the moral, social, and political foundations of society. He was called the "guru" of the communitarian movement in the early 1990s, and he established the Communitarian Network to disseminate the movement's ideas. His writings emphasize the importance of having a carefully-crafted balance between individual rights and social responsibilities, and between autonomy and order, in all societies. And the American system doesn't have "individual rights" and "social responsibilities" already built into its unique system of government along with its Constitution? Etzioni was criticized in 2016 for publishing an article titled "Should Israel Flatten Beirut to Destroy Hezbollah's Missiles?" So much for his ideas of working for the "common good" and the "rights of the individual." Etzioni is now at Georgetown University.
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Helgelian dialectics...

problem

reaction

solution
capitalism + communism

communitarian "synthesis"

The Monochrome Society, sort of like all becoming one kind of "monochrome?

Amitai Etzioni  

Title: University Professor of Sociology

Dr. Amitai Etzioni is the first University Professor of The George Washington University. In 1987-1989, he served as the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School. He served as Senior Advisor to the White House from 1979-1980. He was guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in 1978-1979. For 20 years (1958-1978), he served as Professor of Sociology at Columbia University; part of the time, as Chairman of the Department. Dr. Etzioni founded and was the first president (1989-90) of the International Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. He is the editor of The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities, a communitarian quarterly. In 1991, the press started referring to Dr. Etzioni as the "guru" of the communitarian movement. Dr. Etzioni is the author of 19 books, including the recently released, The Monochrome Society (2001, Princeton University Press). 

With all these advanced thinkers and philosophers as well a sociologist such as Etzioni, America remains socially fragmented with a lot of deeply divided and angry Americans. Much of this chaos in American society is of course intentionally created to bring in communitarianism.

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