Community based service delivery: power and pathology: or, social rehabilitation is still a 'Commie plot

Service delivery in the broad field of rehabilitation has been declining in quantity and quality for people with disabilities, the dispossessed, and o thers. The context, that is, our communities, has similarly been weakened. Meanwhile, the world's resources and wealth and talent flow freely up the h ierarchies to the powers-that-be, the wealthy and the elite. In turn, these powerful people regard social action efforts to redress the underlying soc ial, economic, and political imbalances as a `Commie plot'. More, not less, social rehabilitation is needed to make human communities fit again.