Progressive intellectuals must connect local struggles to broad international social movements

Evidence

Such intellectuals need to understand more clearly how the practices and social relations at work in particular contexts construct the mechanisms of both domination and resistance as they are lived out, experienced, and suffered, and resisted by different groups. Similarly, public intellectuals need to play a vital role in imagining how a progressive politics would address these issues so as not to reduce them to merely local struggles, and how they might be addressed within political organizations and social movements that are broad-based, international, and unified around the need to struggle against a range of social and economic injustice. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2686

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the scale-failure critique seen in the law-merchant literature: local reputation institutions must scale to sustain wide trade; similarly local struggles must scale into broad movements.