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The revolt against old and limiting associations was converted, intellectually, into the doctrine of independence of any and all associations.
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John Dewey
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Dewey critiques the doctrine of independence from all associations that arose from revolts against old associations.
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There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.
In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.
The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.
For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.