Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962-1968

by Breines, Wini

• ISBN13: 9780813514031
• ISBN10: 0813514037
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-03-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
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Author Biography

Wini Breines is a sociologist at Northeastern University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
An Introduction to the New Left: A Critique of Some Critics	p. 1
Key Terms	p. 8
Emergence of the New Left	p. 10
A Historical Sketch	p. 10
The Old Left and the New Left	p. 13
The Great Refusal	p. 18
"The Issue Is Not the Issue"	p. 18
The Free Speech Movement: Students-for-Themselves	p. 23
"Actions"	p. 31
Politics as Community	p. 46
Prefigurative Politics	p. 46
Means and Ends	p. 52
Participatory Democracy	p. 56
Politics as Organization	p. 67
A Mass Movement	p. 67
Movement versus Organization	p. 68
Organizational Politics, 1964-1965	p. 76
Decentralization	p. 79
Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP)	p. 80
December Conference and After	p. 83
Internal Education	p. 90
Politics Is about Power	p. 93
Students as Agency	p. 96
Agency as an Issue	p. 96
The University: New Realities, Old Notions	p. 99
Students as Agency	p. 102
New Working Class Theory and Marxism	p. 110
Reversals	p. 115
Transition Years, 1967-1968	p. 118
The Economic Research and Action Project	p. 123
The Debate: Poor People or Students; Off-Campus vs. On-Campus Organizing	p. 125
The Theory of Community Unions	p. 133
Community Organizing: Organization as Community	p. 135
Democracy	p. 139
The Critique of Community Organizing	p. 146
Conclusion	p. 150
Notes	p. 153
Bibliography	p. 173
Index	p. 183
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