Infantile Disorder? - The Crisis and Decline of the New Left

List of contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Convergence and Breakthrough -- The New Left: A Core Identity -- A New Radicalism -- After Reformism: the Dilemmas of Extra-Parliamentarism -- The Problem of Agency -- Black Movements in Crisis -- In Search of Ideology -- The New Left in Britain: 1956–70 -- Vietnam and Alignment -- SDS in Flux -- Annus Mirabilis: 1968 -- Turn Towards Violence -- Revolution and the New Left -- Provocation: Response and Repression -- The New Left and the Old -- A Crisis of Identity -- Picking up the Threads -- Appendix: Leninism, Militarism, and Peasant Revolution

About the author

Nigel Young

Summary

The New Left, as an organised political phenomenon, came - and went - largely in the 1960s. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Young, Nigel Young, Nigel (Colgate University Young, Young Nigel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367021467
• ISBN: 978-0-367-02146-7
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Social and cultural history, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies