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What's up with the New Left? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Yllych@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Was thinking about this intellectual period last night. I don't know a lot but I get the vague impression of it being too much on the revisionist side for my taste, although the label New Left is so broad that I'm sure there's a huge span of thought that it gets applied to.

What theory still holds up from that time, what theorists do you agree/disagree with, what texts would you recommend to people who want to understand more about this time, t's origins,links to the French 1968 movement ,etc?

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd recommend checking out some of the stuff Gabriel Rockhill has been cooking up lately about the New Left and Western Marxism more broadly. He's working on a book on the topic and his articles and interviews lately have been pretty interesting.

I haven't watched this yet (I just found this trying to recommend you something) but it looks like a good summary of his work - a lecture called The Imperial Theory Industry & the Compatible Left Intelligentsia

(I should add that while I haven't watched this, now that I know it exists I am going to.)