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...democratic socialists ardently hope that more students will begin to draw the lessons of the sixties. Instead, the current period of ritualistic "Leftism" (including the sixties' sickness of elitism, pro-Communism, contempt for working people, etc.) combined with cynicism is an indication that many people have remembered a lot from the heyday of the student movement, but learned nothing...
...novice earth mother. A great deal of pushing and hauling gets them from college to marriage to Hollywood in time for the anti-Red witch hunts. The purpose, one imagines, was to have the apolitical Redford's screenwriting career unfairly victimized because of his wife's gaudy leftism...
This is the New Wave's political vision carried to its limits: the individual rebels in the face of alienating social institutions--not in terms of concrete political action but in a spontaneous affirmation of individuality. What passed for leftism in those early sixties was really more an anarchic individualism that interested itself not so much in collective opposition to oppressive institutions but in a private self-realization--life conceived as an aesthetic of personal liberation. Tanner accepts this premise and works it through to its conclusion. In its way, La Salamandre is the consummate New Wave film, and certainly...
...obscures the solidarity, caution and inner confidence that General Schneider's assassination tested and seemingly proved. It is a time for maximum sensitivity and understanding from the North. The potential for growth of a democracy in Latin America is much more momentous than the foreseeable dangers of repressive leftism. A bumper sticker here says: "Ser Libre Es Participar [to be free is to participate]." This is what most of us believe in here, where I find in informed (non-American) sources guarded optimism and new purpose. All Americans need to learn more about change with peace and peace with...
...French Assembly in 1789; the terms made sense then, but do they now, when an extreme leftist on one set of issues may be a rightist or a centrist on another set (as, for instance, in the conflict over big v. little government) and when the whole content of leftism and rightism shifts drastically from decade to decade? Much of the currency of our discussion (slavery, rebellion, treason) is Confederate money. We are, in short, victims of terminological conservatism...