An Introduction to the New Left: A Critique of Some Critics
Emergence of the New Left
A Historical Sketch
The Old Left and the New Left
The Great Refusal
"The Issue Is Not the Issue"
The Free Speech Movement: Students-for-Themselves
"Actions"
Politics as Community
Prefigurative Politics
Means and Ends
Participatory Democracy
Politics as Organization
A Mass Movement
Movement versus Organization
Organizational Politics, 1964-1965
Decentralization
Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP)
December Conference and After
Internal Education
Politics Is about Power
Students as Agency
Agency as an Issue
The University: New Realities, Old Notions
Students as Agency
New Working Class Theory and Marxism
Reversals
Transition Years, 1967-1968
The Economic Research and Action Project
The Debate: Poor People or Students; Off-Campus vs. On-Campus
Organizing
The Theory of Community Unions
Community Organizing: Organization as Community
Democracy
The Critique of Community Organizing
Wini Breines is a sociologist at Northeastern University.
A valuable perspective on student movements and politics.
*Choice*
The book has three great strengths: its 'prefigurative politics'
thesis, which is both brilliant and convincing; its clear,
straightforward writing; and finally, its short text... Students
will love it.
*University of California, Irvine*
Intellectually provocative and emotionally rewarding - a wise and
hopeful gift from the '60s to the '80s.
*Boston University*
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