dent Movement comes last Dwarf, we are forced itself as an overall analysis of the new theoretical perspectives), consists of something like 70% well-tuned rhetoric and inaccurate metaphor—a massive introduction to a minimal restatement of old and dubious propositions.
Though constantly referring to 'concreteness" and 'precision' the article lacks even an occasional reference to our precise history-references which would at least give critics some notion of the range and accuracy of information which as assessments are based. following statement is an example of the looseness which charactenses In G article's routine propositions" Already many (student revolutionaries) regard Marxism in some form as the means by which changes mav be produced. More must be won to this position." Such formulations beg all the key questions; the specific forms Marxism takes in this country. the role of the groups-their operation and relevance to the student sector. So, some students are interested In Marxism. Is unis anything new! What does it mean? How does it affect the pracuice or mintants.
Exhortations to ask what is the real content ThIs which goes beyond and even, perhaps, against, the Jaco osca TorIn ine movement has taken" are TEBO way followed ideological Lous us cad ver anomen form is imposed. Rather than following the exhortations for precise analysis of a concrete history the article is substantially an exultation of spontenaism, a capitulation subjectivism, and celebration ot spectacle pontics. This. inspite concluding paragraph, which is little more than a ritualistic genuflection to the need to transcend The longer Dwarf Ads 9d a word. First 20 words FREE for revolutionary fraternal or progressive magazines, papers, and publications. Send the information, and cash in advance, to 79 Cromwell Road, London S.W.7.
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There is one lonely thesis in UnIS article. We quote, 'Suddenly, by personal CAPCLICHICCS the theoretica standing of many thousands of students was deepened. This thesis is backed only by assertions, of 'new relations between theory and practice and that *the concept of revolution has acquired new dimensions. The thesis Illa sustainable, but in the article it is not sustained. It may be as the writer states, that our limitations are revealed when we attempt the task of analysis and assessment, but those limitations cannot be used to justify the absence of a characterisation. coherent rigorous argument— necessary to support such a new thesis In our opinion, all the new breakthrough does CLO state more aggressively formulas arrived at two or three years ago.
According to the article the student movement has come of age. We ask, wial does maunty mean for our move ment? What criteria does the article apply? Does the moving of the latest wave occupations up to a movement at all? And is that movement revolutionary in its impulse. or merely liberal? The writer argues that the files issue is concrete but avoids stating what he thinks the nature of the issue is. The fact the issue is a liberal one is ignored by the writer, who, of course. cannot then go to the important task of assessing the contribution of liberalism.
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AnnI relevance there is to the files issue The article speaks of the reaction of the workers and middle classes, presaging a general revolt against new new??) forms of oppression. There is no evidence of this. Warwick militants, tied workenism and Labourism, tried to reach out to the midlands car plants, and the result was academic lecture (respectfully received) from the local Labour Party leader on good behaviour and the way build meaningful community links. Those of us attempting conscious planning have for some time been trying to resolve these problems on a level deeper than that of rhetoric.
speaks student Leap.-knetonc Mao's Leap Forward was within a context of a strong revolutionary party, a army, genuine new theory, and a history of successful practice; the recent wave of student militancy has been more like a Great Leap Sideways.
lines could expectation of a climb-down by the VCs portrayed in the article. Most of the militants, far from being challenged by reintegration, are consumed by problems of victimisation (as they have been for three years past ase Knowledge of the limited use •prisin: which zzle, and the dangers of a dissipatir detensive struggic. is the other side of the coin of the excitement and euphoria referred to in the article.
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