Counterculture Blues

It’s not ‘them’, it’s us

by Betsy Leondar-Wright


The Top 10 Mistakes of Middle-Class Activists in Mixed-Class Groups

  1. Overlook necessity
  2. Overlook intelligence
  3. Romanticize working-class people
  4. Impose inessential weirdnesses (Read more about inessential weirdnesses)
  5. Hide who they really are
  6. Think they know it all
  7. Think they know nothing
  8. Focus on education more than organizing
  9. Focus on goals and tasks more than people
  10. Take over

Clothing, Hygiene and Shopping as Class and Race Issues

QUOTES FROM BARBARA SMITH, JOHN ANNER, AND GLORIA ANZALDÚA

Group Process And Class Cultures

Excerpt from Coalitions Across the Class Divide by Fred Rose


Middle-Class Counterculture Activists Doubly At Odds with Workers

Excerpt from Politics and the Class Divide: Working People and the Middle-Class Left by David Croteau

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