Biblioteca / 1960-1969
Massimo Teodori, editor. The New Left: A Documentary History.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
xiv, 501 páginas.
Esta obra presenta tanto un estudio histórico y crítico de «el Movimiento» como una antología de los escritos del propio Movimiento.
En su introducción interpretativa, Teodori traza el crecimiento y desarrollo de la Nueva Izquierda y contrasta su carácter con el de la Vieja Izquierda. Muestra cómo las actividades estudiantiles individuales -derechos civiles en el Sur, el movimiento pacifista en el Norte, la organización comunitaria y los inicios de la revuelta universitaria- empezaron a converger en un Movimiento. A continuación, Teodori describe la radicalización de la Nueva Izquierda, uno de los resultados del movimiento de masas contra la guerra de Vietnam, cuando las manifestaciones masivas desembocaron en actos individuales y colectivos de resistencia y cuando los negros organizaron un movimiento independiente dentro del concepto de Poder Negro. La indignación moral subyacente al Movimiento seguía existiendo, pero ahora adquiría un significado político.
Por último, Teodori especula sobre el futuro de la Nueva Izquierda, sobre la revolución social y cultural que se está produciendo más allá del nuevo estilo en política hacia nuevos estilos de vida.
Los documentos aquí incluidos no sólo complementan el análisis del libro, sino que ilustran vívidamente la evolución y la gran variedad de pensamiento dentro de la Nueva Izquierda. Entre los temas tratados se encuentran el movimiento por los derechos civiles, el movimiento por la paz y el pacifismo, la libertad de expresión, la política interior y exterior estadounidense, la democracia participativa, el Black Power, la resistencia al reclutamiento, el poder estudiantil, la violencia, la no violencia y la autodefensa, las drogas, la Nueva Política, los medios de comunicación clandestinos, y las estructuras sociales alternativas.
Contents
First Part
Massimo Teodori: Historical and Critical Notes
1 – The Beginning of the Movement
2 – The Emergence of the New Left
3 – The Radicalization of the Movement
4 – Beyond Politics—Social Revolution?
Second Part
Documents
I – The Beginning of the Movement
1 – Civil Rights
Anne Braden: The Southern Freedom Movement, The Student Revolt: 1960-61
SNCC: Founding Statement
John Lewis: A Serious Revolution
Staughton Lynd: The Freedom Schools: Concept and Organization
Some Letters from Mississippi
Mike Miller: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Norm Fruchter: Mississippi: Notes on SNCC
Charles Cobb: Atlanta: The Bond Campaign
2 – Peace, Protest and Civil Liberties
Frederick Moore: Statement about ROTC
SLATE Peace Committee: Statement
Dale L. Johnson: On the Ideology of the Campus Revolution
Student Peace Union: Documents
3 – Community Organization
Carl Wittman: Students and Economic Action
Tom Hayden and Carl Wittman: Summer Report, Newark Community Union
Todd Gitlin: The Radical Potential of the Poor
4 – «Free Speech»
Bradley Cleveland: A Letter to Undergraduates
Sol Stern: A Deeper Disenchantment
Mario Savio: An End to History
II – The Emergence of a New Left Position
5 – Analyses and Proposals for American Society
SDS: Port Huron Statement
SDS: America and New Era
Carl Oglesby: Trapped in a System
Todd Gitlin: Power and the Myth of Progress
Richard Flacks: Is the Great Society Just a Barbecue?
6 – The Politics of the Movement: Coalition, Autonomy and Organizational Structures
Staughton Lynd: Coalition Politics or Nonviolent Revolution?
Tom Hayden: The Politics of the Movement
Editors of Studies on the Left: Up from Irrelevance
7 – New Left Methodology: Nonexclusionism, Participatory Democracy and Direct Action
Alan Haber: Nonexclusionism: The New Left and the Democratic Left
Staughton Lynd: The New Radicals and «Participatory Democracy»
David Dellinger: The Future of Nonviolence
III – The Radicalization of the Movement
8 – Antiwar Protest
James Gilbert: The Teach-in: Protest or Co-optation?
Paul Potter: The Incredible War
Vietnam Day Committee: Attention All Military Personnel
SNCC: Statement on Vietnam War
A.J. Muste: The Movement to Stop the War in Vietnam
Steve Weissman and John Gerassi: The Vietnamization of Latin America
9 – Black Power
SNCC: The Basis of Black Power
Stokely Carmiehael: A Declaration of War
Black Panther Party: Platform and Program
Eldridge Cleaver: An Interview
Huey P. Newton: An Interview
10 – Antidraft Resistance
«We Won’t Go» Statement
Resistance: We Refuse to Serve
Michael Ferber: A Time to Say No
The Movement: We’ve Got to Reach Our Own People
Staughton Lynd: Resistance: From Mood to Strategy
A Message to GIs and to the Movement
11 – Student Power
Mark Kleiman: High School Reform: Toward a Student Movement
Carl Davidson: The New Radicals and the Multiversity
NACLA: Who Rules Columbia?
Tom Hayden: Two, Three, Many Columbias
IV – Problems and Perspectives
12 – New Morality
Raymond Mungo: The Road to Liberation
Confessions of a Middle-Aged Pot Smoker
Naomi Jaffe and Bernardine Dohrn: The Look Is You
Free Church of Berkeley: Liberation Litanies
13 – Cultural Revolt
Berkeley Barb: From the Haight
Yippie!
Gary Snyder: Buddhism and the Coming Revolution
Diane Di Prima: Revolutionary Letters
International Werewolf Conspiracy: A Little Treatise on Dying—Fight Foul, Life Is Real
Allen Ginsberg: How To Make a March/Spectacle
Keith Lampe: From Dissent to Parody
14 – New Society
The Digger Papers: The Post-Competitive, Comparative Game of a Free City
Marvin Garson: The Movement: It’s Theory Time
15 – Alternative Structures
Raymond Mungo: The Movement and Its Media
Some Newsreel Documents
Radio Free People
Meta Information Applications: Technology in a Radical Context
Ronnie G. Davis: Guerrilla Theater: A Way of Life
The Children’s Community
The Radical Education Project: An Introduction and an Invitation
Bob Gottlieb and Marge Piercy: Movement for a Democratic Society, Beginning to Begin to Begin
16 – In Search of a Class Analysis
Gregory Calvert: In White America: Radical Consciousness and Social Change
John and Margaret Rowntree: Youth as a Class
Dave Gilbert, Bob Gottlieb and Susan Sutheim: Consumption: Domestic Imperialism
17 – New Politics
Robert Scheer: Scheer Speaks for Himself
Peace and Freedom Movement: Program
Julian Bond: The Future of the Democratic Party
Carl Oglesby: An Open Letter to McCarty Supporters
18 – What Is to Be Done
William Domhoff: How to Commit Revolution
John and Barbara Ehrenreich: From Resistance to Revolution
Guardian: The Forces Exist To Make a Beginning
Herbert Marcuse: On the New Left
Third Part
Chronology, Glossary, and Bibliography
I – Chronology of Events
II – Organizations
1 – National Organizations of the Movement
2 – Other National Organizations of Interest to the Left
3 – Organizations with a Special Area of Interest, Temporary Movements and Ad Hoc Committees
4 – Organizations for New Politics
5 – Traditional Left
III – Press
1 – Nationally Circulated Publications Related to the New Left
2 – Movement Publications
3 – Underground Press
4 – Nationally Distributed Periodicals of Interest to the Left
5 – Political Magazines of Interest to the Left
6 – Movement Periodicals or Bulletins Dedicated Mainly to One Sector of Activity
7 – Periodicals of Traditional Left Organizations
Selected Bibliography