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The '''New Left''' refers to [[radical]], often [[Communist]] or [[anarchist]], political parties and movements which emerged in the United States and Western Europe during the 1960s and 1970s.  These are distinguished from the "Old Left" of such groups that originated from the 1890s-1930s, such as the Soviet-line [[Communist Party USA]], the Trotskyist [[Socialist Workers Party]], and the even older [[Socialist Labor Party]].  Parties and movements which emerged from the New Left include the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]], the [[Progressive Labor Party]], the political movement of [[Lyndon LaRouche]], [[Students for a Democratic Society]], the [[Weather Underground]], the [[Youth International Party]], and several others.  A distinguishing feature of the New Left was a tendency to view the [[Third World]] as the "vanguard" of the "revolution", rather than the industrial working class of Europe and North America as the Old Left did.  Thus, the imagery and ideology of such Third World revolutionaries as [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Che Guevara]] were favored.  Another distinguishing feature of the New Left was a much greater emphasis on manifestations of cultural rebellion against mainstream society, particularly borrowing from the [[hippie]] movement, radical [[feminism]], and [[black nationalism]].

The '''New Left''' refers to [[radical]], often [[Communist]] or [[anarchist]], political parties and movements which emerged in the United States and Western Europe during the 1960s and 1970s.  These are distinguished from the "Old Left" of such groups that originated from the 1890s-1930s, such as the Soviet-line [[Communist Party USA]], the Trotskyist [[Socialist Workers Party]], and the even older [[Socialist Labor Party]].  Parties and movements which emerged from the New Left include the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]], the [[Progressive Labor Party]], the political movement of [[Lyndon LaRouche]], [[Students for a Democratic Society]], the [[Weather Underground]], the [[Youth International Party]], and several others.  A distinguishing feature of the New Left was a tendency to view the [[Third World]] as the "vanguard" of the "revolution", rather than the industrial working class of Europe and North America as the Old Left did.  Thus, the imagery and ideology of such Third World revolutionaries as [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Che Guevara]] were favored.  Another distinguishing feature of the New Left was a much greater emphasis on manifestations of cultural rebellion against mainstream society, particularly borrowing from the [[hippie]] movement, radical [[feminism]], and [[black nationalism]].  Again, this is distinct from the Old Left which tended (at the time) to be culturally very staid and which saw countercultural movements as decadent and capitalistic.

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[[Category:Communism]]

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