Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the tumultuous days of the late 1960s, Abbie Hoffman led the antic wing of the revolution, where the anarchist politics came from Mikhail Bakunin, the media savvy from Marshall McLuhan and the spirit from Peter Pan. He liked to think of himself as a bridge between the New Left...
Hoffman was already 31 when he and Jerry Rubin formed an amalgam of political pranksters into the Youth International Party. "Yippies believe in the violation of every law," he once told a crowd, "including the law of gravity." In 1968 they ran a pig for President. As a lead-up...
CITIZENS, A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama (Knopf; $29.95). Exactly 200 years after the bloody facts, a Harvard historian offers a fascinating, often surprising account of what went right -- and wrong -- during one of the world's most celebrated social convulsions.
But too many of the promises of 1969 went unfulfilled. Racism and poverty still tear at the fabric of our society. The United States government continues to conduct illegal and unpopular foreign policy. The revolution envisioned by activists of 1969 never happened--and the rally celebrating the 20th anniversary of...
BOOKS: A masterly account of the French Revolution