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Lerner wrote a book in 1973 entitled "The New Socialist Revolution: An Introduction to Its Theory and Strategy" which was reviewed in the March 11, 1973 editon of the [[New York Review of Books]] by Michael Harrington, described as "editor of the [[Newsletter of the Democratic Left]], a new publication. Harrington politely but succinctly critiqued and criticized Lerner's book as failing to look at the variety of marxist theories and philosophies available for disillusioned member of the New Left. A few key paragraphs of that review will suffice to explain what a veteran marxist such as Harrington thought of a rising member of the New Left.
 
Lerner wrote a book in 1973 entitled "The New Socialist Revolution: An Introduction to Its Theory and Strategy" which was reviewed in the March 11, 1973 editon of the [[New York Review of Books]] by Michael Harrington, described as "editor of the [[Newsletter of the Democratic Left]], a new publication. Harrington politely but succinctly critiqued and criticized Lerner's book as failing to look at the variety of marxist theories and philosophies available for disillusioned member of the New Left. A few key paragraphs of that review will suffice to explain what a veteran marxist such as Harrington thought of a rising member of the New Left.
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''"I would like to give Michael Lerner's book an enthusiastic review. Unfortunately, I can't. "The New Socialist Revolution" is an earnest and serious attempt to relate theory to the practical work of transforming this society, but it fails because it is too narrowly argued, and above all because it does not contrary evidence."''
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''"Lerner is a young veteran of the New Left, turning 30 this year, who has been tried, sentences and dropped from a teaching post for his activism. (He is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College.) His book is a kind of survey of the left strategies, and on a good number of issues he does challenge some of the easy cliches that abounded in the movement during the sixties. He is, for example, quite rightfully critical of [[Tom Hayden]]'s thesis that it is possible to establish a liberated zone for radicals in a Shangri-la like Berkeley. He rejects the terrorism which the Weathermen tragically adopted, not so much out of militancy as in a frenzy of despair and confusion. And, writing in mid-1972, Lerner understood that a [[McGovern]] victory would have been progressive."''
  
 
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Revision as of 07:56, 24 December 2010

Tikkun Community

Tikkun Community is a network organization of people of many faiths aiming "for social justice and political freedom in the context of new structures of work, caring communities, and democratic social and economic arrangements."[1]

The Tikkun Community is listed as affiliated with the United for Peace and Justice.[2]

International coordinators

The following are listed as coordinators for the Tikkun Community, as of March 15, 2010.[3]

  • Arizona
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Georgia
  • North Carolina, Raleigh-Durham (Triangle Tikkun): Rhoda Silver
  • Ohio
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • Vermont

Tikkun Magazine

Tikkun Magazine is a magazine composed of articles on social theory, religion/spirituality, social change, contemporary American and global politics and economics, ecology, culture, psychology, and Israel/Palestine. The publishers wish to advance the pursuit of tikkun olam (social justice and the repair of the world). The magazine supports "a progressive spirituality."[4]

Magazine staff

The following are listed as members of the Tikkun Magazine staff, as of March 23, 2010:[5]


The Early History of Tikkun and Its Founder Michael Lerner

The Tikkun Community did not arise out of thin air, but came from the New Left movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, especially those that involved former SDS organizer/leader Michael Lerner, who was one of the violent Seattle Liberation Front. New Left members who were not happy with the way SDS was heading, splitting into the terrorist action group, the Weather Underground Organization, Weathermen for short, and the equally violent Maoist faction known as RYM II which was controlled by the Progressive Labor Party PLP.

As young radicals left SDS, they gravitated to a new group, the New American Movement [[NAM}, created by former SDSers and members of the Communist Party USA. They would later takeover the older "Democratic Socialists" movement of Norman Thomas and his successor Michael Harrington, the latter the founder of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee DSOC. This organization later became the hardcore marxist Democratic Socialists of America DSA.

Lerner wrote a book in 1973 entitled "The New Socialist Revolution: An Introduction to Its Theory and Strategy" which was reviewed in the March 11, 1973 editon of the New York Review of Books by Michael Harrington, described as "editor of the Newsletter of the Democratic Left, a new publication. Harrington politely but succinctly critiqued and criticized Lerner's book as failing to look at the variety of marxist theories and philosophies available for disillusioned member of the New Left. A few key paragraphs of that review will suffice to explain what a veteran marxist such as Harrington thought of a rising member of the New Left.

"I would like to give Michael Lerner's book an enthusiastic review. Unfortunately, I can't. "The New Socialist Revolution" is an earnest and serious attempt to relate theory to the practical work of transforming this society, but it fails because it is too narrowly argued, and above all because it does not contrary evidence."

"Lerner is a young veteran of the New Left, turning 30 this year, who has been tried, sentences and dropped from a teaching post for his activism. (He is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College.) His book is a kind of survey of the left strategies, and on a good number of issues he does challenge some of the easy cliches that abounded in the movement during the sixties. He is, for example, quite rightfully critical of Tom Hayden's thesis that it is possible to establish a liberated zone for radicals in a Shangri-la like Berkeley. He rejects the terrorism which the Weathermen tragically adopted, not so much out of militancy as in a frenzy of despair and confusion. And, writing in mid-1972, Lerner understood that a McGovern victory would have been progressive."

External links

References

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  1. ↑ Tikkun Community website
  2. ↑ Affiliates
  3. ↑ Coordinators
  4. ↑ About Tikkun Magazine
  5. ↑ Magazine staff
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