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Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986
Founded in Chicago in 1969 from the rubble of the recently crumbled SDS, the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) brought working-class consciousness to the forefront of New Left discourse, sending radicals back into the factories and thinking through the integration of radical politics into everyday realities. Through the influence of founding members like Noel Ignatiev and...more
Paperback, 387 pages
Published
June 5th 2012
by AK Press
(first published May 15th 2012)
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Revolutionary organizations are not “structures”, nor “categories”, but rather “something, which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships.” While E.P. Thompson is describing class here in the preface of his potent and enduring Making of the English Working Class, we can assert that it is the micropolitical affects and flows that in turn construct revolutionary organizations. And so the task of Michael Staudenmaier in the boo...more
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Revolutionary organizations are not “structures”, nor “categories”, but rather “something, which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships.” While E.P. Thompson is describing class here in the preface of his potent and enduring Making of the English Working Class, we can assert that it is the micropolitical affects and flows that in turn construct revolutionary organizations. And so the task of Michael Staudenmaier in the boo...more
If you have been involved with progressive or radical politics in the past 20 years, you may have been influenced by Sojourner Truth Organization, without knowing it! STO was a small national left group known for advancing the "white blind spot" as the fatal flaw in US social movements. They didn't just sit around and talk theory--the organized in factories as well. Very well written.
this was one of the best movement/org histories i have read. it was thorough and well written and was not just a recount of events or even the groups theoretical contributions but also a political assessment of both their work and their legacy. sto was a peculiar organization in a lot of ways. further, there are tons of lessons in here for modern revolutionaries on a lot of pertinent issues. i highly recommend this book.
Probably one of the best books focusing on contemporary American radicalism I've ever read. Ok, now time to read it again and take notes for a future reading group!
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