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The article that follows attempts to summarize elements of Irving Louis Horowitz's 1970 book The Struggle is the Message, published by Glenessary Press, Berkeley. The notes were just pulled from an old file (1980) and re-examined. However, the contents seemed so salient that the book was hunted down and re-read -- having lost nothing in 26 years.
To add to the introduction, our July 1996 Newsletter (Issue #26) described what appeared to be an emerging Populist-Elite political axis. Ironically, some elements within the populist camp have adopted the techniques of the revolt against reason, while a large share of the new elite came to power despite having participating in that very same revolt a quarter century earlier.
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