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...cleavages between liberal and conservative Faculty members were also different last year. Confronted by such issues as curriculum reform, women's rights, and the implementation of the Rights and Responsibilities resolution, the liberal caucus was no longer united by its anti-war-leftism. The issues this year were distinctly internal issues...
...cleavages between liberal and conservative Faculty members were also different this year. Confronted by such issues as curriculum reform, women's rights, and the implementation of the Rights and Responsibilities resolution, the liberal caucus was no longer united by its anti-war leftism. The issues this year were distinctly internal issues...
...upon his varying ideas would meet with Lenin's approval. Although something of a campus radical at the University of Kazan, he would no doubt excoriate the passionate bomb throwers of America's S.D.S. and other extremist groups as dangerous amateurs, afflicted with the "infantile disease of leftism." Almost certainly, he would be highly suspicious of Tito's reliance on a market economy and private farming, bewildered by Castro's wild-eyed barbudos, and appalled by Che's adventuristic forays in Latin America. Although he took a certain satisfaction in being revered as the Marx...
That is what Doris Lessing is about -questions, not opinions. She began asking them as a girl growing up in the vast, empty landscape of Rhodesia. Her questions concerned racism, and the answers led her into radical leftism and membership in a Communist group "so pure it must have been blessed by Lenin in his grave." When she moved to England in 1949, at the beginning of her writing career, she was a party member for a few years...
...seems to me to form the basis of such claims and innuendoes. The view in question is by no means a new one, and in fact it has its origins not among liberals, but among such establishment radicals as Irving Howe (for instance, in Howe's "New Styles in Leftism," which first appeared in a 1965 issue of Dissent). What is new is the somewhat hysterical appropriation of this analysis--albeit in a generally less sophisticated form--by establishment liberals. On any given Sunday, the odds are good this sort of analysis of the "mood" or "scenario" of radicalism...