>There is a very fine article on local organizing by Michael Engel on
>mrzine, at <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/engel140306.html> It is
>on local organizing and it is sharply critical of the mindset of
>most "progressive" organizations. It describes the kind of behavior
>I observed so many times at the Socialist Scholars Conference and
>elsewhere. I'd love to get others' take on it.
That's a good piece; it has a lot in common with our activistism essay <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Action.html>. But both are mainly diagnoses - what's the cure? Is it just a matter of the pampered white folks of Happy Valley "reaching out" to their darker neighbors in Springfield? Is there a lot of action in Springfield that the middle-class radicals are missing? Or is not much happening?
Doug