Architects of Native Radicalism

In addition to its "founding fathers," the Invisible Whitmanian Republic stands on the shoulders of intellectual giants whose writings inform the critical tradition that Professor Rick Tilman has termed "native radicalism" (see Tilman's 1984 intellectual biography of Wright Mills published by Penn State University Press: C. Wright Mills: A Native Radical and his American Intellectual Roots). The IWR looks to a broader (and more eclectic) group of thinkers than Tilman includes in his "school," but the Whitmanian republic is not a sect: it is an intellectually promiscuous and robust attempt to revitalize the tradition of native dissent under the present American regime of a perpetual war economy and the world empire it seeks to establish.

Pictured from top left: Thorstein Veblen, Economist; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Historian; G. H. Mead, Philosophical psychologist; Emma Goldman, Essayist and activist; Richard Rorty, Public intellectual; John Dewey, Educator and public intellectual; C. Wright Mills, Sociologist and theoretician.