Abstract
Drawing on lifelong experience in movements of social change and on the left, the author describes what he has sensed in women's lives from which he and other males need to learn: (1) compassion, as exemplified by the life of Rosa Luxemburg; (2) a horizontal style of leadership; and (3) the creation of “loose networks with strong bonds” described by Temma Kaplan. The Student Nonviolent Organizing Committee (SNCC) is offered as an example of an essentially feminist style of organizing, practiced by men.
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