The Malaise on the Left

http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/brinton/1974/11/malaise.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1974/11/malaise.htm
Publisher:  Solidarity
Year Published:  1974
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX10585

Let us take it for granted that meaningful activity needs to be collective, that social transformation needs emancipated individuals, and that the institutional framework of any new society will probably be based, in part at least, on those forms which the struggle itself has repeatedly thrown up at its moments of deepest insight and creativity. What we now need to think about - and to discuss widely throughout the libertarian left - is the political content of an activity that consciously seeks both to avoid recuperation and to be relevant to the conditions of today.

Subject Headings

• Left, The