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An Infantile Disorder? - The Crisis and Decline of the New Left (Hardcover)
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An Infantile Disorder? - The Crisis and Decline of the New Left (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement
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First published in 1977. The New Left, as an organised political
phenomenon, came - and went - largely in the 1960s. Was the
Movement that went into precipitate decline after 1969 the same New
Left that had developed a decade earlier? Nigel Young's thesis is
that the core New Left, as it had evolved by the mid-1960s, had a
unique identity that set it apart from other Old Left and Marxist
groups. He believes that this was dissipated in the later
developments of the black and student movements, and in the
opposition to the Vietnam war. By 1968 - the watershed year - an
acute 'identity-crisis' had set in within the Movement and became
the major source of the New Left's disintegration. Nigel Young
traces the Movement's growth and crisis mainly in Britain and
America, where it reached its greater strength, but attention is
also paid to parallel developments in similar movements elsewhere.
He analyses the crisis in terms of the interrelationship between
dilemmas of strategy and ideas, and the external events which tend
to reinforce the tendencies toward elitism, intolerance and
violence, and produce organisational breakdown.
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