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2. From the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to Woodstock

Author : Nikos Sotirakopoulos

Published in: The Rise of Lifestyle Activism

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

In this chapter, the rise of the New Left in the 1960s is examined. The focus is on the main theorists who influenced its rise (mainly the Frankfurt School) and the reasons behind its success: that is, the new cultural and social trends that were in need of political representation. New and old left are compared and the ways in which the New Left constitutes a historical breach with the old left are examined. The 1960s radicals left behind a contradictory legacy: on the one hand, promoting freedom and individual rights and, on the other, drifting towards emotionalism and questioning some of the fundamental premises of modernity. The case study examined is the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

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1
Both the start and the end point are symbolic and for analytical use only. In 1956, at the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR, Nikita Khrushchev’s partial revealing of the crimes of the Stalinist era, combined with the bloody suppression of the Hungarian uprising by the Red Army in the same year, brought about a huge split in the international communist movement. In the same year, some prominent intellectuals from the British Communist Party started to question the Moscow line and published the New Reasoner journal, which soon became the New Left Review. The year 1977 was marked by the escalation of the terroristic actions and the deaths of the leading members of the Red Army Fraction urban guerrilla group in Germany, a group that for many signified the dark side of the 1960s legacy.
 
2
It is interesting to note that Bastiat was the first person in the French Legislative Assembly in 1849 to campaign for the right of the workers to strike (Revel 2000, p. 38).
 
3
Mostly, a lack of motive in reinvesting capital in the firm itself, as the profit margin was limited (Barger 1988; for more information on the motivation problem in socialism, see Mises 2009).
 
4
A good example of that would be the cultural wars of parts of the left in the UK against tabloid newspapers (Hume 2012).
 
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Metadata
Title
From the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to Woodstock
Author
Nikos Sotirakopoulos
Copyright Year
2016
Book
The Rise of Lifestyle Activism

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-55102-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-55103-0

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55103-0_2