Word: succession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispute began over B.S.U. and T.W.L.F. demands for more black students and more black studies. On these points, the strikers could claim some success: under the terms of the agreement, San Francisco State will increase minority-group enrollment, but only "as far as resources permit," and establish a department of black studies, though it will not be an autonomous department as the strikers had originally demanded...
...resources, such a bureaucracy would likely respond only to complaints pressed over a long period through its channels. It is doubtful that many lower income lower income residents would have the time or resources to press these complaints. Middle class, not lower class tenants, would probably have the most success in their tangles with rent control administrators...
...city government to the plight of the poor has been inadequate. Efforts have been misdirected and poorly coordinated. Last Monday the City Manager announced the formation of a task force to mount a coordinated effort to find low cost housing sites. But even if this effort is a success it will be several year before its effects are felt, and by then it may be too late...
...this development occurred as a succession of improvised responses to unexpected situations. All the way along, the left has been picking up bits and pieces of experience and incorporating them as ideology. From the early antiwar days, we have the mystique of resistance and myths about the feebleness of illegitimate authority. The growth of the hippie movement contributed to the left a hodgepodge of cultural notions that were dubbed "revolutionary" and stuck into the movement. Finally the success of the Viet Cong has helped to create a tremendously powerful mystique of Third World Revolution...
...that no Leninist revolution is possible in the United States, and that therefore radical change can only come about by creating a radical mass movement. Lasch's movement would be spearheaded by the intellectuals from the universities whose lives would be devoted to the posing of social alternatives. Their success would eventually be due to the demonstrable superiority of those alternatives...