[history from a liberal white university student viewpoint and an interesting point at the end, dayne]
The Making of the New Left The movement inspired young people to believe that they could transform themselves—and America. by Louis Menand, New Yorker, March 15, 2021 (March 22, 2021 Issue) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/22/the-making-of-the-new-left . . . "In retrospect, the New Left’s break with the labor movement seems a disastrous, maybe an arrogant, miscalculation. So does its support for the Hanoi regime, which, after it finally united the country, in 1975, turned Vietnam into a totalitarian state. But the New Left never had any political cards to play. It was always a student movement. Today, the left has the progressive wing of the Democratic Party to turn its ideals into policy. There was no such wing in 1962." . . . "These reminiscences may seem romantic. They are romantic. But they express the core premise of left-wing thought, the core premise of Marx: *Things do not have to be the way they are*. "The nation was at a crossroads in the nineteen-sixties. The system did not break, but it did bend. We are at another crossroads today. It can be made to bend again."♦# -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7401): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7401 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81470203/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
