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Program 17: On Revolution

Philosopher Scott Buchanan discusses the nature and source of revolution. When we in the West speak of revolution, we most often mean the kind symbolized by the American and French upheavals. But these were very different from the politicized peasant revolutions going on in the 1960s. Mr. Buchanan's view of revolution is of a process of education in which the revolutionaries change and learn as their actions change a situation. [ca. 1963]. [CSDI program number 17; UCSB tape numbers A7505/R7, A7506/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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