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Título : | The New Left. 1968 and Post Scriptum |
Palabras clave : | Política;New Left;1960s civil rights movement;Vietnam War;Movement radicalization;Political theory;United States |
Editorial : | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Descripción : | The author, a well know theorist and activist of the civil rights movement and the movement against the Vietnam War, published the first part of this article in 1968. There, he analyses the emergence of the New Left in the United States -and its global connection- athrough the social structure, the actors class background and their cultural configuration to account for the aspirations and limits that accompanied the middle class youth that lead this movement. The dilemmas that emerged between the racial, ethnic, social and economic axes that defined the actors framed the diverse social movements and throw light on the promises, scope and weaknesses that characterized them.In the post scriptum, written explicitly for the Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 50 years later with a great analytical and existential wisdom, the author inspects the way in which class profile, radicalization and separatism led to an isolation of the New Left from the natural support basis it should have reached. It evaluates the consequences of its integration either to the Old Left or to the system, as it manifests in the turn towards right that progressive and democratic sectors had in the United States. Furthermore, he underlines the way it influenced the inequality and vulnerability that prevails among the social class -the precateriat- the left should have represented, and projects itself in the current situation and in Trumpism. Without a doubt, the depth, realism and theoretical and practical vision of Michael Walzer have turned him into one of the representative figures of political theory. JBL. |
URI : | http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/115457 |
Otros identificadores : | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=42159667005 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales - FCPyS/UNAM - Cosecha |
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