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Oppose and Propose: Lessons from Movement for a New Society (Anarchist Interventions)

by Andrew Cornell

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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 inLetters from Young Activists andThe University Against Itself. He helps produce the quarterly anti-capitalist magazineLeft Turn.… (more)
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A great short introduction to Movement for a New Society, who popularized cooperatives, spokescouncils, consensus-decision making. Worth getting for their analysis alone on concrete ways to deal issues of leadership & structurelessness. ( )
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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 inLetters from Young Activists andThe University Against Itself. He helps produce the quarterly anti-capitalist magazineLeft Turn.

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