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"Maximum Feasible Participation": Working Class and Peasant Movements as a Theoretical Model for the Analysis of Current U.S. Movements of Poor and Minority Groups
Abstract
Parallels from past Wc & peasant movements are sought for analysis
of today's problems of poverty & race. Attention is focused on
organization of the poor at individual & group levels. Findings
reveal that the level of individual participation in & commitment
to organizations for the poor is low. At the organizational level,
many major policy choices are currently under investigation, including
the problems of gradualism vs revolution, & ethnic exclusiveness
vs inclusiveness. It is concluded that the government's request for
participation of the poor within the bureaucratic framework will only
be beneficial to the poor when they acquire political power outside
& independent of that framework. M. Cain.
Journal
(July 1972)
vol1
no3
pages25-41
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