I gather this is dialectics-related

I'm not 100% on that, I scrolled by a screenshot of the text like an hour ago and my memory is foggy. Looked like it modified a clause with a short list of key causes in recent years also mentioning Palestine.

Afaik this was a debate over whether to augment the word "rights", already part of the text and not in question, into "liberation"

English-language for-profit science publishing in general needs a reckoning over the role of Robert Maxwell

"On Inquiring Systems" is probably the most efficient text for Churchman's deal.

"Systems Analysis in Public Policy: A Critique" by Hoos gets into some details of the Vietnam stuff and good-government concerns about the systems analysis wave in CA.

To me this would seem a sharp mischaracterization of many notable writers of the time and place, I would particularly emphasize the cluster around Churchman in Berkeley.

Of course, this was also very tied up in Vietnam and many academics wanted to dissociate their special and good chunks of systems theory from all that business after the fact.

There was a lot of public policy systems work under "systems analysis", especially in California, which flowed into sustainability, sysadmin, GIS, earth science, Internet, etc

The video of young Stephen Miller just gives me high school flashbacks. They were everywhere ime

And in the end a time will come when we shall all understand each other so well, so perfectly, that we have nothing further to say to one another." (Kula, Measures and Men)

Reminds me of:

"The prefects will not desist from their labors. It is reasonable to expect that they shall seek, and achieve, in the areas of their administrative competence, further unification of ever new perceptions among men ...