{"product_id":"community-and-organization-in-the-new-left-196268-the-great-refusal-9780813514031","title":"Community and Organization in the New Left 196268","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraces 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 Wini 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA valuable perspective on student movements and politics.  * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. -- Jon Wiener * University of California, Irvine *\u003cbr\u003eIntellectually provocative and emotionally rewarding - a wise and hopeful gift from the '60s to the '80s. -- Howard Zinn * Boston University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Introduction to the New Left: A Critique of Some Critics\u003cbr\u003e Emergence of the New Left\u003cbr\u003e A Historical Sketch\u003cbr\u003e The Old Left and the New Left\u003cbr\u003e The Great Refusal\u003cbr\u003e \"The Issue Is Not the Issue\"\u003cbr\u003e The Free Speech Movement: Students-for-Themselves\u003cbr\u003e \"Actions\"\u003cbr\u003e Politics as Community\u003cbr\u003e Prefigurative Politics\u003cbr\u003e Means and Ends\u003cbr\u003e Participatory Democracy\u003cbr\u003e Politics as Organization\u003cbr\u003e A Mass Movement\u003cbr\u003e Movement versus Organization\u003cbr\u003e Organizational Politics, 1964-1965\u003cbr\u003e Decentralization\u003cbr\u003e Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP)\u003cbr\u003e December Conference and After\u003cbr\u003e Internal Education\u003cbr\u003e Politics Is about Power\u003cbr\u003e Students as Agency\u003cbr\u003e Agency as an Issue\u003cbr\u003e The University: New Realities, Old Notions\u003cbr\u003e Students as Agency\u003cbr\u003e New Working Class Theory and Marxism\u003cbr\u003e Reversals\u003cbr\u003e Transition Years, 1967-1968\u003cbr\u003e The Economic Research and Action Project\u003cbr\u003e The Debate: Poor People or Students; Off-Campus vs. On-Campus Organizing\u003cbr\u003e The Theory of Community Unions\u003cbr\u003e Community Organizing: Organization as Community\u003cbr\u003e Democracy\u003cbr\u003e The Critique of Community Organizing","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405770989911,"sku":"9780813514031","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813514031.jpg?v=1730493555","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/community-and-organization-in-the-new-left-196268-the-great-refusal-9780813514031","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}