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The New Left rejected [[capitalism]], [[technology]], [[bureaucracy]] and modernity generally. They took the fight to the universities they attended, sometimes seizing offices and denouncing the administration. According to former New Left radical [[Ronald Radosh]], the object was to politicize the university curriculum. Many senior professors of the era were liberals who rejected the aims of the New Left, and generally favored keeping the universities as an apolitical place of learning and debate. Eventually, the phenomenon of "tenured radicals" emerged--that is, New Left graduate students who themselves obtained [[PhD]]s.
The New Left rejected [[capitalism]], [[technology]], [[bureaucracy]] and modernity generally. They took the fight to the universities they attended, sometimes seizing offices and denouncing the administration. According to former New Left radical [[Ronald Radosh]], the object was to politicize the university curriculum. Many senior professors of the era were liberals who rejected the aims of the New Left, and generally favored keeping the universities as an apolitical place of learning and debate. Eventually, the phenomenon of "tenured radicals" emerged--that is, New Left graduate students who themselves obtained [[PhD]]s.
The New Left encouraged free use of drugs and free sexuality--and (much to the dismay of their elders), long hair styles for men. They found their uniforms in working class clothes such as [[T-shirts]] and jeans. Some joined hippie communes where everything was shared in common; most folded after a few months.
The New Left encouraged free use of drugs and free sexuality--and (much to the dismay of their elders), long hair styles for men. They found their uniforms in working class clothes such as [[T-shirts]] and jeans. Some joined hippie communes where everything was shared in common; most folded after a few months.
===Origin===
A german-born marxist by the name of [[Herbert Marcuse]] is generally regarded as the Father of the New Left.<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1608 Herbert Marcuse]</ref> The term "New Left" was coined by C. Wright Mills.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lMr12GCPGz4C&pg=PA99 The Ocean-Hill Brownsville Conflict: Intellectual Struggles Between Blacks and Jews at Mid-century]</ref> Other important influential thinkers leading to the beginning of the New Left include Paul Goodman, William Appleman Williams, and Arnold Kaufman.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jCKNWkHQNdMC&dq Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-1970]</ref>
===Britain===
===Britain===
* Rossinow, Doug. ''The Politics of Authenticity'' (1998), on U.S. movement; based on extensive archival research [http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Authenticity-Doug-Rossinow/dp/023111057X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227933295&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
* Rossinow, Doug. ''The Politics of Authenticity'' (1998), on U.S. movement; based on extensive archival research [http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Authenticity-Doug-Rossinow/dp/023111057X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227933295&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
* Suri, Jeremi. ''Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente'' (2005) relates student activism worldwide to foreign policy [http://www.amazon.com/Power-Protest-Global-Revolution-Detente/dp/0674017633/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227962361&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
* Suri, Jeremi. ''Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente'' (2005) relates student activism worldwide to foreign policy [http://www.amazon.com/Power-Protest-Global-Revolution-Detente/dp/0674017633/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227962361&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
==references==
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[[Category:Marxist terminology]]
[[Category:Marxist terminology]]