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One of the consistent themes of this book has been the importance of understanding the complexities of inter-social movement relationships in the development of any individual example. The Kibbo Kift’s evolving struggle to shape a reality which its supporters would find convincing continuously drew on its relationships with others, both supportive and hostile. Conversion to Social Credit now provided the Kibbo Kift with a further series of such problems in its development as a social movement. Hargrave had to establish his credentials and those of his followers within the existing Douglas Movement. He had to do so, moreover, in such a way as to convince the Douglasites that they had in their midst a new convert which was neither simply strange and outlandish, nor determined to use the Social Credit analysis only for its own ends, but one which was able to introduce a new, valuable and dynamic impulse into the propagation of the Social Credit message.
The Kin is now almost full of young people of ambition and spirit who see the possibilities of having the command of a‘Wok’ of 250 unemployed during the great march on London, or of having to edit a newspaper or control a Department of Education or run a municipality at a moment’s notice.
(LO. Evans)
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Drakeford, M. (1997). Cause and Conversion. In: Campling, J. (eds) Social Movements and their Supporters. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137001627_8
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