Living Inside Our Hope : A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement / Staughton Lynd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynd, Staughton, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Left--United States.

New Left.

Radicalism--United States.

Radicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.) : 18 b/w photos

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The photograph of three men spattered with red paint, their arms linked, marching to protest the Vietnam War, is an icon of the 1960s movement for social justice. David Dellinger is on one side, Robert Moses on the other. In the middle is Staughton Lynd, chairperson of the first march on Washington against the war, and former director of the Mississippi Freedom Schools.Thirty years later, Staughton Lynd here reaffirms ideas central to the New Left of the sixties: nonviolence, participatory democracy, an experiential approach to education, and anti-capitalism. In essays written between 1970 and 1995, he passionately defends the intellectual contribution of a movement often dismissed as mindlessly activist. In addition, he advocates direct, sustained involvement in meeting the needs of the working class and the poor.Each section of the book identifies major influences on Lynd's life as teacher, historian, lawyer, and organizer. In the section entitled "Accompaniment," Lynd suggests the relevance to the United States of the concepts of liberation theology which have revolutionized Central America. In "Socialism with a Human Face," he expresses continued allegiance to the socialist ideals exemplified by Simone Weil and E. P. Thompson. The final section, "Solidarity Unionism," deals with the self-activity of rank-and-file workers. Living Inside Our Hope will reach out to everyone who remembers the ideals of the sixties with nostalgia and to those, too young to remember, who are seeking a foundation on which to build their own social activism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface / Lynd, Staughton

Introduction: The Once and Future Movement

Part I. Accompaniment

Part II. Socialism with a Human Face

Part III. Solidarity Unionism

Notes

Glossary

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

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ISBN:

9781501744617

1501744615

OCLC:

1129209709