The May Pamphlet
by Paul Goodman
1962Social sciencesAddresses, essays, lecturesResistance to GovernmentanarchismGovernment, resistance to
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**The May Pamphlet** is a collection of six anarchist essays written and published by Paul Goodman in 1945. Goodman discusses the problems of living in a society that represses individual instinct through coercion. He suggests that individuals resist such conditions by reclaiming their natural instincts and initiative, and by "drawing the line", an ideological delineation beyond which an individual should refuse to conform or cooperate with social convention. While themes from The May Pamphlet—decentralization, peace, social psychology, youth liberation—would recur throughout his works, Goodman's later social criticism focused on practical applications rather than theoretical concerns. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_May_Pamphlet))
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Social sciencesAddresses, essays, lecturesResistance to GovernmentanarchismGovernment, resistance to
First published 1962About the author
Paul Goodman
9 September 1911 – 2 August 1972
Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 – August 2, 1972) was an American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, and public intellectual. Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of Growing Up Absurd (1960) and an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and an inspiration to that era's student movement. He is less remembered as a co-founder of Gestalt Therapy in the 1940s and '50s. [Wikipedia, October 2011]
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