Where do the tactics, strategies, and lifestyles of today’s activists come from? Many ways of doing radical politics pioneered by Movement for a New Society in the 1970s and 1980s have become central to anti-authoritarian social movements: consensus decision making, spokescouncils, communal living, unlearning oppressive behavior, and co-operatively owned businesses. Andrew Cornell’s important contribution to US political history uses this story to raise crucial questions for activists today. Oppose and Propose is an engaging and accessible study, every page offers new insights.
Andrew Cornell ‘s work appears in Letters from Young Activists and The University Against Itself. He helps produce the quarterly anti-capitalist magazine Left Turn.
Cuprins
Introduction
Part 1: History
–Anarchism and the Movement for a New Society: Direct Action and Prefigurative
Community in the 1970s and 1980s
Part 2: Conversations with Movement for a New Society
–Lessons from the Movement for a New Society [Event Transcripts]
–Nonviolence, Consensus, and Leadership: An Interview with George Lakey
Part 3: Documents
–Why Nonviolence? Introduction to Nonviolence Theory and Strategy
–Movement for a New Society Organizational Handbook
Conclusion
Despre autor
Andrew Cornell: Andrew Cornell’s doctoral work at NYU’s American Studies Program traces the development of post-WWI anarchism in the United States. He has been active in anti-prison, global justice, and academic labor movements. His work appears in
Letters from Young Activists (Nation Books, 2005) and
The University Against Itself (Temple University Press, 2008). He helps produce the quarterly anti-capitalist magazine
Left Turn.
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