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...reading with a Roxbury student if the entire ghetto school system demands basic structural change? And if institutional change is the goal, can PBH offer any more than a subtle introduction to the frustrations of the system before these volunteers leave or turn to organizations such as Afro and SDS...
Mark R. Dyen '70, a co-chairman of SDS, supported Goodin's action, but doubted if most PBH projects had equal power to force change. He said, "PBH does not have a power base outside of the established institutions and no organization can accomplish serious change working within the system." Jeffrey P. Howard '69, president of Afro, took the same position as Dyen...
This illustrates the basic philosophical difference between PBH and Afro and SDS. Even with the changing image of PBH, a prophecy for joint action with Afro or SDS seems tenuous. PBH is concerned with particular institutions that have faltered in the present society, a society in which faith is retained; Afro and SDS are interested in changing the overall structure of America. PBH generally has immediate pragmatic change as its end; Afro and SDS use change in the present as a means toward a future end almost Chekhovian in its expanse...
Dyen said, "PBH is finding out that it is impossible to make a big dent in social problems without working politically in some way." And Howard said, "Even the traditionally blandest political group must start swaying to the left." The political and power orientation of SDS and Afro may stifle smaller but positive aims...
...only on alleviating individual suffering, when American crises as great as the War or the racial situation exist? Perhaps the time has come when the liberal must recognize his inability to overcome the system's basic inertia and to effect real change without becoming a radical? For Afro and SDS, that time has come...