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New Lefts - The Making of a Radical Tradition (Paperback)
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New Lefts - The Making of a Radical Tradition (Paperback)
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A groundbreaking history of Europe's "new lefts," from the
antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960s In the 1960s, the
radical youth of Western Europe's New Left rebelled against the
democratic welfare state and their parents' antiquated politics of
reform. It was not the first time an upstart leftist movement was
built on the ruins of the old. This book traces the history of
neoleftism from its antifascist roots in the first half of the
twentieth century, to its postwar reconstruction in the 1950s, to
its explosive reinvention by the 1960s counterculture. Terence
Renaud demonstrates why the left in Europe underwent a series of
internal revolts against the organizational forms of established
parties and unions. He describes how small groups of militant youth
such as New Beginning in Germany tried to sustain grassroots
movements without reproducing the bureaucratic, hierarchical, and
supposedly obsolete structures of Social Democracy and Communism.
Neoleftist militants experimented with alternative modes of
organization such as councils, assemblies, and action committees.
However, Renaud reveals that these same militants, decades later,
often came to defend the very institutions they had opposed in
their youth. Providing vital historical perspective on the
challenges confronting leftists today, this book tells the story of
generations of antifascists, left socialists, and
anti-authoritarians who tried to build radical democratic
alternatives to capitalism and kindle hope in reactionary times.
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