This question (and any answer given to it) is vicious nonsense. For 200 years "the left" has been an entity which only exists for fairly brief periods of time -- for reasons quite beyond the controlof this mythical entity, "The Left." Any notion contrary to this represents a serious and disastrous voluntarism.
Despite the apparent chaos of left forces in the 60s, and the many quarrels among them, a coherent left existed for five or six years beginning around 1965, a left having roots going back to the immeidate postwar period. By 1969 or so that left had achieved all that, essentially, _could_ be achieved at that time, and at the same time the corporate right and center bean a systematic assault on what they regarded as the "D Too Much Democracy" which that movement of movements threatened. (Attempts to blame this exhaustion on supposed errors of "The Left" are siply a continuation of the more vicious sectarianisms of the period. Leftists and left groups did make many errors, as all left movements of the future will do also, but those errors were inconsequential as 'causes' of the exhaustion of left forces, the systematic attack of capital, and the achievement or apparent achievement of the major goals which had empowered the movements of the period. Major parts of this story are to be found in Edward P. Morgan, _What Really Happened To the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed* American Democracy_. (*This word, Ted has informed me, was at the pressure of the publisher and distorts the actual argument of the book.) Carrol This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
