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THE STRUGGLES SINCE THE END OF THE COLD WAR ARE OVER RECOGNITION AND IDENTITIES EITHER LOST OR THREATENED BY THE ENORMOUS DISLOCATING PRESSURES OF A RAPILY CHANGING WORLD ECONOMY. THEY ARE A PROTEST AGAINST THE DECLINING QUALITY OF LIFE, THE BREAKDOWN OF COMMUNITY AND ORDER, THE ECLIPSE OF OLD SYMBOLS AND DISCOURSES. IT TAKES PLACE IN A MILIEU OF CAPITAL FLIGHT AND DISINTEGRATING ECONOMIES. THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THE ESCAPE FROM POLITICS; ANTI-POLITICS IN THE US; GLOBAL ORDER AND DISORDER; AND A FALSE SENSE OF EMPOWERMENT. IT WARNS THAT WHERE SOCIAL CONFLICTS TAKE ON THE CHARACTER OF VIOLENT, PAROCHIAL TURF WARS, THE RIGHT-WING AUTHORITARIAN SOLUTION BECOMES AN EVER INCREASING POSSIBILITY.

A COMPLETE RETHINKING OF THE NEW-MOVEMENT MODEL IS REQUIRED IF THE GOALS OF EMPOWERMENT, SOCIAL JUSTICE, PEACE, AND ECOLOGICAL BALANCE ARE TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. THE WAR ECONOMY IS NOT NEW BUT ITS INSTITUTIONAL SCOPE AND POWER IS GREATER THAN EVER. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE CLOSURE OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE, FRIENDLY FASCISM REVISITED, THE NEW STRATEGIC CONTEST, POLITICAL PARTIES, AND THE RESILIENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY.

The status of the U in leftist-intellectual discourse is reviewed, focusing on higher education's role in advanced capitalism, its position in SC contradiction & conflict, & its potential & actual sponsorship of Marxism & "academic praxis." While the academy is viewed as a primary locus for social reproduction & expanding rationalization, it is also seen as crucial to the development of alternative movements (eg, feminism, civil rights, environmentalism) in the "new middle strata." Distinctions between a technocratic & a critical intelligentsia within the U are identified; pedagogical strategies to be adopted by radicals are outlined, including interdisciplinary programs, flexible methodologies, democratization of authority relations, & self-sustaining direction within the radical community. The Critical Studies Program of the U of California, Los Angeles, is cited as a prototype of such strategies. Academic praxis goals are delineated, focusing on self-management & organizing around U fiscal crisis & community outreach. L. Whittemore.