ABSTRACT
Humanists have emphasized the ways people find meaning through social action. Marxists, have a well-developed theory of social structure. They believe that material life determines in the sense of setting limits to the prevailing character of social ideologies and political organization. In the Marxist view, class is viewed as an objective economic relation between groups of people and also between people and their means of production. But in the political alignments and eventual polarization that the actions of the New Left produced, the underlying and divisive influence of class may be seen. In Kingston, propitious circumstances allowed the local New Left to continue organizing long after the national movement had fallen apart. The advantages to organizing in Kingston were not apparent to the group of students who set up the Kingston Community Project in the summer of 1965. City government was made a little more democratic and responsive to popular demands.
