Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Cambridge residents are getting a taste of spring, the Harvard golf team is enjoying its full effects on the balmy Florida fairways. The team left for spring practice in Florida Sunday...
...result, though few people on the left have yet been willing to admit it, is that the New Left today is a mess. It is a morass of slogans and apocalyptic visions, full of desperation and despair. It is a movement without ideology, without anything that can be called strategy, and without a coherent program for social or economic change...
...book, The Agony of the American Left, Christopher Lasch attempts to explain the current state of the left in historical terms. His central thesis, spread out over the several articles which comprise this volume, is that a succession of disastrous failures and compromises over the past fifty years has so debilitated and corrupted American radicalism that there now exists no body of leftist thought to guide the new generation of radicals that has grown up in the sixties...
...second and more recent misdirection of the American left came with the defection of the intellectuals following the Second World War. In a long essay dealing with the history of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom, Lasch attempts to show how the sterility and lack of ideas which characterized American politics in the fifties can be traced to the enlistment of the liberal intellectuals into the Cold War struggle. During a period when they should have been formulating alternatives to the Cold War and the moratorium on domestic political controversy which accompanied it, the liberal intellectuals were allowing themselves...
...this anti-intellectualism which is the greatest weakness of the left today. It is not a surprising characteristic, given the lack of a radical intellectual tradition on which the New Left could draw. The left of the sixties has had to work everything out on its own, and the results were bound to be confused and contradictory. But things shouldn't be allowed to stay that...