Organic Intellectuals and Direct Action Fifty Years Past Chicago’s “War on Poverty”

I teach a “Class and Stratification” course for the Sociology Program at Chicago State University.¹ In class we focus on inequality and the global capitalist economic system, and critique writings on alternative economic systems. In class, we examine the problems of inequality caused by the capitali...

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1. Verfasser:	PANCHO McFARLAND
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Zusammenfassung:	I teach a “Class and Stratification” course for the Sociology Program at Chicago State University.¹ In class we focus on inequality and the global capitalist economic system, and critique writings on alternative economic systems. In class, we examine the problems of inequality caused by the capitalist economy and then focus on our own city, Chicago, as a means to understand our places in the economy as working-class people of color. To learn about ourselves in Chicago, I use a text written by the Chicago Grassroots Curriculum Taskforce,Urban Renewal or Urban Removal?This is the first volume of eight, and