TERMS OF ENDEARMENT - INTELLECTUALS AND WORKERS MOBILIZING FOR A SOCIAL-MOVEMENT

Looking at the internal dynamics and movement mobilization efforts of the Social Self-Defense Committee (KOR) in Poland in the late 1970s, t he study evaluates two dominant theories of the role of intellectuals in political education and social movements-''Leninian'' and ''Sorelia n.'' The study combines the examination of KOR's program, structure, a nd internal divisions, with a quantitative content analysis of its pri mary channel of communication with workers, the journal Robotnik (The Worker), compared to the Coastal Worker (Robotnik Wybrzeza), the quart erly journal of the Initiating Committee of the Coastal Free Trade Uni ons (CFTU), an immediate precursor of Solidarity. KOR's social-democra tic wing shaped the group's approach to workers, and to the publicatio n of Robotnik, This resulted in an inconsistent strategy of movement m obilization. CFTU's activity was necessary to help KOR regain focus on free trade unions, The data support neither the Leninian nor Sorelian belief in the origins of Solidarity, Several years of cooperation and coalition building between the worker activists and the radical intel lectuals resulted in both oppositional organizations undergoing a reci procal learning process. Elsevier Science Ltd. Copyright (C) 1996 The Regents of the University of California