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16 cze 2021 · Using an inclusive definition of the New Left, Gosse tracks the development and commonalities of the civil rights and black power movements and other struggles of people of color, of the peace, antiwar, and student movements, and of feminism and gay liberation.
This chapter focuses on the New Left in the 1960s. Interwar and post-war New Left had similar approaches to organizational form and politics such as radical democracy, cultural experimentation, sexual liberation, and anti-colonial solidarity.
It consisted of activists in the Western world who, in reaction to the era's liberal establishment, campaigned for freer lifestyles on a broad range of social issues such as feminism, gay rights, drug policy reforms, and gender relations. [1] .
15 mar 2021 · Although it helped mobilize opinion on issues like civil rights, urban poverty, the arms race, and the war, the New Left never had its hands on the levers of political power. But it changed...
14 mar 2017 · The one disciplined organization with much of a presence in SDS, the Progressive Labor Party, was biding its time. PL was a small far-left party whose leaders had left the Communist Party USA in 1961, taking the side of China in the Sino-Soviet quarrel that split world communism.
28 maj 2021 · The New Left demanded ‘participatory democracy’ not only in the universities…but in the wider society as well. The vision, part anarchist, part Rosseauesque, was generally derided by the Old Left as both aggravatingly utopian and a free ride for charismatic orators seeking power without responsibility” ( 1968: Year of the Barricades ...
21 mar 2016 · The upheaval of the 1960s signaled the advent of the New Left movement, comprising the Free Speech Movement (FSM) and Students for A Democratic Society (SDS).
