1st Edition

An Infantile Disorder? The Crisis And Decline Of The New Left

By Nigel Young Copyright 1977
    512 Pages
    by Routledge

    512 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book aims to provide an alternative perspective on the Western New Left (NL) as distinct from currently established right-wing and left-wing versions. It emphasizes the travails of the American Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

    Introduction 1. Convergence and Breakthrough 2. The New Left: A Core Identity 3. A New Radicalism 4. After Reformism: The Dilemmas of Extra-Parliamentarism 5. The Problem or Agency 6. Black Movements in Crisis 7. In Search of Ideology 8. The New Left in Britain: 1956–70 9. Vietnam and Alignment 10. SDS in Flux 11. Annus Mirabilis: 1968 12. Turn Towards Violence 13. Revolution and the New Left 14. Provocation: Response and Repression 15. The New Left and the Old 16. A Crisis of Identity 17. Picking up the Threads

    Biography

    Nigel Young