Students for a Democratic Society, drafted by Tom Hayden and widely read on campuses throughout the 1960s, laid out the ideals of participatory democracy, racial equality, economic justice, and peace as a guide to the Left. In historical perspective the Port Huron Statement marked an inflection point on the Left, a high point of communitarianism, condemning “egoistic individualism,” while praising self-expression as against conformism.62
