New lefts : the making of a radical tradition / Terence Renaud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renaud, Terence, author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--Europe--History.

Socialism.

Left-wing extremists--Europe--History.

Left-wing extremists.

Europe--Politics and government--20th century.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 344 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"In the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe's New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents' antiquated politics of reform. It was not the first time an upstart leftist movement was built on the ruins of the old. This book traces the history of neoleftism from its antifascist roots in the first half of the twentieth century, to its postwar reconstruction in the 1950s, to its explosive reinvention by the 1960s counterculture. The book demonstrates why the left in Europe underwent a series of internal revolts against the organizational forms of established parties and unions. It describes how small groups of militant youth such as New Beginning in Germany tried to sustain grassroots movements without reproducing the bureaucratic, hierarchical, and supposedly obsolete structures of Social Democracy and Communism. Neoleftist militants experimented with alternative modes of organization such as councils, assemblies, and action committees. However, the book reveals that these same militants, decades later, often came to defend the very institutions they had opposed in their youth. The book tells the story of generations of antifascists, left socialists, and anti-authoritarians who tried to build radical democratic alternatives to capitalism and kindle hope in reactionary times."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

- Introduction: The origins of Neoleftism

1. Leftism and the new

2. The antifascist new left

3. Exile and the Spanish Experiment

4. Revolutionary hope and despair

5. Postwar new beginning

6. Social Democratic modernization.

7. Left socialism

8. The sixties new left.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2022).

ISBN:

9780691220802 (electronic book)

9780691220819

0691220816

OCLC:

1259320149