Mel King (1) (1928–2023)
Auteur van Liberating Theory
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- Officiële naam
- King, Melvin Herbert
- Geboortedatum
- 1928-10-20
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2023-03-28
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- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Boston Technical High School
Claflin University (BS | Mathematics)
Teacher's College of the City of Boston (MA | Education) - Beroepen
- high school teacher
community organizer
mayoral candidate
state representative - Organisaties
- United South End Settlements
Community Assembly for a United South End / CAUSE (founder)
New Urban League of Greater Boston
Massachusetts Legislature
Rainbow Coalition Party (founder)
Community Fellows Program, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT (toon alle 8)
The New Majority
Mel King Institute for Community Building
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Well, the folks over at Z (Z Magazine) have a solution. It's not really anything new, but rather a reworking and meshing of many older theories. The authors argue that the serious flaw of many of the old radical left visions was their "monism." Marxism claimed the economy as the central social field and all else as "superstructure." The practical effect was that Marxists ignored the problems of women and people of color beyond the economy. Anarchists and radical feminists had analogous problems.
Liberating theory suggests that their are four, equally important, sphere's of society: economic, political, kinship and cultural. The authors argue that the institutions of these four spheres are interconnected and (most often) mutually reinforcing. Therefore struggle for revolution can not occur in one, ignoring the rest.
The debates in this book seem to me a bit old. Opposition to patriarchy and racism have permeated most of the left and there has been a recent resurgence of class and political issues with the stirrings of organized labor, Seattle, D.C. and the new third parties. So it seems to me many people now see the value of working on multiple fronts and inclusiveness.
However, these movements are also largely bereft of long term vision. This book, despite its dated quality, could provide a good foundation for such a vision.… (meer)