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A New Dawn for the New LeftGood Politics: The SDS Split and Third World Marxism

A New Dawn for the New Left: Good Politics: The SDS Split and Third World Marxism [When Allen Young returned to New York from the World Youth Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria—a Communist celebration that he had been attending as the Liberation News Service (LNS) split unfolded—he discovered an LNS altogether distinct from that which he had left only a few weeks earlier. Everyone in the office had not only professed a commitment to participatory democracy, but had actually defended democracy by tooth and nail. They had begun to forge a collective.1 That task became all the more central to the LNS identity when LNS, Massachusetts, ceased publication of its competing news service within six months of the split. The status of the LNS outfit in Harlem had been cemented. But work remained. LNSers shared an egalitarian impulse to forge a perfection of Movement democracy in the smithy of LNS’s Harlem basement. But the collective still faced the arduous task of converting that common ideal into a common reality. Because work collectives were just then emerging as viable Movement counterinstitutions, LNS had few reliable models for how a work collective could achieve efficient and humane democratic operations.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A New Dawn for the New LeftGood Politics: The SDS Split and Third World Marxism

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
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978-1-349-44789-3
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85 –98
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10.1057/9781137280831_7
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[When Allen Young returned to New York from the World Youth Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria—a Communist celebration that he had been attending as the Liberation News Service (LNS) split unfolded—he discovered an LNS altogether distinct from that which he had left only a few weeks earlier. Everyone in the office had not only professed a commitment to participatory democracy, but had actually defended democracy by tooth and nail. They had begun to forge a collective.1 That task became all the more central to the LNS identity when LNS, Massachusetts, ceased publication of its competing news service within six months of the split. The status of the LNS outfit in Harlem had been cemented. But work remained. LNSers shared an egalitarian impulse to forge a perfection of Movement democracy in the smithy of LNS’s Harlem basement. But the collective still faced the arduous task of converting that common ideal into a common reality. Because work collectives were just then emerging as viable Movement counterinstitutions, LNS had few reliable models for how a work collective could achieve efficient and humane democratic operations.]

Published: Nov 3, 2015

Keywords: Participatory Democracy; American Activist; Good Politics; Armed Struggle; Movement Democracy

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