>Unlike you, I would not identify myself with either strategy en toto. I think
>that the Cloward-Piven focus on poor folks is primarily based on a flawed
>1960ish notion of 'the people'; witness all their work on poor peoples
>movements. It is, at best, a very incomplete notion of a left social base.
Leo, could you *please* set your mailer to plain text?
Didn't I read a piece of yours somewhere recently - some DSA rag perhaps? - arguing that teachers' unions should act more like professional/craft guilds than like working class unions? Is that a better way to build a "left social base"?
Doug