Data from current interviews with New Left activists of the 1960s in Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the United States indicate that the ambivalence of the movement was an expression of the relations of a specific generation of learners to the deterioration of the condition of intellectual labor in society. (JMF)

This comparison of antipoverty strategies in Britain (Urban Programme) and the United States (War on Poverty) highlights their similar conceptions of the nature of the problem, differences in approach and implementation, and the contrasting political cultures of American community activism and British socialism. (SK)

Traditional Marxist approaches to the state relegate superstructural institutions like the school to a minor role in the process of social change. More recent theories like those of Gramsci, Althusser, and Poulantzas raise the state and the class struggle in the state apparatuses to a much more prominent position: superstructure, including the…