We have insisted that the development of political democracy represents the convergence of a great number of social movements, no one of which owed either its origin or its impetus to inspiration of democratic ideals or to planning for the eventual outcome.
Dewey asserts that the development of political democracy is a convergence of various social movements, not solely driven by democratic ideals.
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