{"product_id":"community-and-organization-in-the-new-left-1962-1968-the-great-refusal-paperback-softback-9780813514031","title":"Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962-1968; The Great Refusal (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813514031","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCommunity and Organization in the New Left, 1962-1968\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Great Refusal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWini Breines (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813514031\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 February 1989\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.369 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA 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. - Jon Wiener (University of California, Irvine) Intellectually provocative and emotionally rewarding - a wise and hopeful gift from the '60s to the '80s. - Howard Zinn (Boston University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eDid 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?\u003cp\u003eWini 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1982, Wini Breines's classic work now includes a new preface in which she reassesses, and for the most part affirms, her initial views of the movement. She argues that the movement remains effective in the midst of radical changes in activist movements. Breines also summarizes and evaluates the new and growing scholarship on the 1960s. Her provocative analysis of the New Left remains important today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\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 \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Issue Is Not the Issue\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Free Speech Movement: Students-for-Themselves\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eActions\"\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559276081432,"sku":"9780813514031","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/community-and-organization-in-the-new-left-1962-1968-the-great-refusal-paperback-softback-9780813514031","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}