ABSTRACT
There is no surer way to attract a reading or listening audience than to intone that America needs a revolution, that a revolution in America is long overdue, and, best of all, that the authors are in the midst of a revolution. It is one of those words which, in Professor Harold Lasswell’s phrase, is endowed with “halo effects.” President Nixon has announced that he is dedicated to “the New American Revolution can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting, as that first revolution almost 200 years ago.” He was, of course, talking about “a peaceful revolution in which power will be turned back to the people. Not even Marx was certain that violence was needed to effect major changes in capitalist societies. The credo of all the revolutionary groupuscules in the Western world is that by overthrowing capitalism and democracy, the new man will be created.
