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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962-1968: The Great Refusal

Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962-1968: The Great Refusal

Breines, Wini

Paperback

General SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0813514037
ISBN13: 9780813514031
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: Feb 1 1989
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
Did New Left activists have an opportunity to start a revolution that they simply could not bring off? Was their rejection of conventional forms of political organization a fatal flaw or were the apparent weaknesses of the movement -- the lack of central authority, the distrust of politics -- actually hidden strengths?

Wini Breines traces the evolution of the New Left movement through the Free Speech Movement, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and SDS's community organization projects. For Breines, the movement's goal of participatory decision-making, even when it was not achieved, made up for its failure to take practical and direct action. By the late 1960s, antiwar activism contributed to the decline of the New Left, as the movement was flooded with new participants who did not share the founding generation's political experiences or values.

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