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Woodrow Wilson was referring tothe liberal
idea of the economicmarket when he said that
the free enterprisesystem is the most efficient
economic system.Maximum freedom means
(5) maximum productiveness; our “openness” is to
be the measure of ourstability. Fascination with
this ideal has madeAmericans defy the “Old
World” categories ofsettled possessiveness versus
unsettlingdeprivation, the cupidity of retention
(10) versus the cupidity of seizure, a “status quo”
defended or attacked.The United States
,it was believed, had no status quo ante. Our only “sta-
tion” was the turningof a stationary wheel, spin-
ning faster andfaster. We did not base our
(15)system on property but opportunity---which
meant we based it noton stability but on mobil-
ity. The more thingschanged, that is, the more
rapidly the wheelturned, the steadier we would
be. The conventionalpicture of class politics is
(20) composedof the Haves, who want a stability to
keep what they have,and the Have-Nots, who
want a touch ofinstability and change in which
to scramble for thethings they have not. But
Americans imagined acondition in which spec-
(25) ulators,self-makers, runners are always using the
new opportunitiesgiven by our land. These eco-
nomic leaders (front-runners)would thus he

mainly agents of change. The nonstarters were

considered the ones who wanted stability, a

(30) strongreferee to give them some position in the
race, a regulativehand to calm manic specula-
tion; an authoritythat can call things to a halt,
begin things againfrom compensatorily stag-
gered “startinglines.”
(35)   “Reform” in America
has been sterile because it can imagine nochange except through the
extension of thismetaphor of a race, wider inclu-
sion of competitors,“a piece of the action,” as it
were, for thedisenfranchised. There is no
(40) attemptto call off the race. Since our only sta-
bility is change, America
seemsnot to honor the quiet work thatachieves social interdependence
and stability. Thereis, in our legends, no hero-
ism of the officeclerk, no stable industrial work
(45)force of the people who actually make the system
work. There is nopride in being an employee
(Wilson
asked for a return to the time when

everyone was an employer). There has been no

boasting about our social workers---they are

(50) merelysigns of the system’s failure, of opportu-
nity denied or nottaken, of things to be elimi-
nated. We have nopride in our growing
interdependence, inthe fact that our system can
serve others, that weare able to help those in
(55)need; empty boasts from the past make us
ashamed of our presentachievements, make us
try to forget or denythem, move away from
them. There is nohonor but in the Wonderland
race we must all run,all trying to win, none
(60) winning in the end (for there is no end).
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