Liberating Theory

Liberating Theory

Lydia Sargent

Language: English

Pages: 197

ISBN: 0896083063

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


A collectively authored volume that provides a unique conceptual framework for understanding contemporary U.S. society and history, and developing a dynamic vision and strategy for social change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

complex pattern we will better understand as we proceed. ____________________ * Please Note: Readers who would now like to consider a hypothetical dialogue dealing with issues raised in chapter three should turn to page 161. -45[This page intentionally left blank.] -46CHAPTER FOUR ECONOMICS To avoid incorporating biases that would prove detrimental to a complementary holist approach special care must be taken in modifying existing radical economic theory. We thus begin our analysis by

and Beyond Survival with David Dellinger. Leslie Cagan: "Feminism and Militarism" in Beyond Survival; "Something New Emerges: The Growth of a Socialist Feminist" in They Should Have Served That Cup of Coffee. Noam Chomsky: Year 501: The Conquest Continues, Rethinking Camelot, Necessary Illusions, and On Power and Ideology. Robin Hahnel: Looking Forward, Unorthodox Marxism, Marxism and Socialist Theory, and Socialism Today and Tomorrow, all with Michael Albert. Mel King: Chain of Change; From

served to graphically reveal many skills, "creation" can become our central metaphor. The trick is to attain this more positive thematic mindset while retaining the skills of strategic thinking and the abstract methods needed to develop good strategies. In this way we can preserve the positive lessons to be had from thinking carefully about competitive strategies, while jettisoning the elements of their "personality" that contradict our broader values. Toward A Strategy For Social Revolution To

the best chance for the broadest kind of success. From there we can move to perfect it. If we wait to find the broadest possible lowest common denominator theory we will wait until the cows come home, the stew is a crust on the bottom of the pan, the earth has disappeared into a black hole--use any analogy you want. Coho: Why do you fail to... Marlen: (only beginning to assert the weight of history) Let me finish. Nat, you claim concern for the black community but you fail to define and

encompassing questions and to see important relationships--not just using one sphere here, one sphere there. Plury: I still don't see the difference. I think Coho's just obscuring the issue unnecessarily. Coho: Take the Soviet example again. The complementary holist approach helps us look at struggles within the Soviet coordinator class over the relative importance of market and planning forms; between workers and coordinators over management prerogatives; between -175coordinators and political

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