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An Infantile Disorder?: The Crisis and Decline of the New Left book cover

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

By Nigel Young Copyright 1977
514 Pages
by Routledge

514 Pages
by Routledge

514 Pages
by Routledge
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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.... Read more

Preface;  Acknowledgements;  Chronology;  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 of Agency  6. Black Movement 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;  Appendix;  Notes;  Select Bibliography;  Index

Biography

Nigel Young, now mainly based in Yorkshire, Northern England, has been active in transnational peace activity for at least a half century. He is presently Editor-in-Chief of the 'Oxford International Encyclopedia of World Peace' (a four-volume reference work) for which he won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is also active in the Balkans Peace Park Project, UK (B3P).

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