The crucial contribution to both ends and means by the New Left as well as its most direct form of confrontation with the Old Left is the concept of participatory democracy. In the broadest sense, the idea of participatory democracy is profoundly individualist and libertarian: for it means that each individual, even the poorest and most humble, should have the right to full control over the decisions that affect his own life. Participatory democracy is at the same time, (here again bringing a profoundly new direction to social thought), a theory of politics and a theory of organization, an approach to political affairs and to the way New Left organizations (or any organizations, for that matter) should function. ---Murray N. Rothbard, Liberty & the New Left mises.org/journals/lar/pdfs/1_2/1_2_4.pdf
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