{"id":11571,"date":"2018-12-10T19:43:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T03:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11571"},"modified":"2018-12-10T19:43:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T03:43:58","slug":"the-rise-of-the-new-old-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-rise-of-the-new-old-left\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise Of The New Old Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s, campus radicals were branded the New Left. The media saw the m\u00e9lange of radicals like Bill Ayers, David Delinger, Jane Fonda, Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, Herbert Marcuse, Jerry Rubin\u2014as well as hippies, the Black Panthers, the gay liberation movement, La Raza, women\u2019s liberation, draft resistance, and the anti-Vietnam War and new ecology movements\u2014as a new counter-culture, quite different from the narrower \u201cOld\u201d unionists, Trotskyites, Comintern orthodox communists, and Stalinists of the 1930s-1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Sixties radicals claimed their enemies were not just the old corporate bosses and greedy bankers, but rather the entire \u201cEstablishment\u201d. The new targeted status quo was supposedly a racist, sexist, homophobic, nativist, and white cohort. By 1968, the \u201cMan\u201d was ritually accused of war-mongering, polluting, and exploiting\u2014as well as just being \u201crepressed\u201d, \u201cirrelevant\u201d, \u201cboring\u201d, \u201csquare\u201d, \u201cuptight\u201d, and \u201cout-of-it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sixties radicals saw even the Old Left, with its folk-song protest music, loyalty to Moscow, support for world communist revolutions, and never-ending labor strikes, hopelessly puritanical and dreary. For their part, these old, class-struggle Leftists, who came of age in tougher times, were not so interested in New Left trademark agendas and indulgences of a pampered boomer generation like abortion, LSD and marijuana, sustainable living, identity politics, rock music, free speech, and back to nature living.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/rise-new-old-left\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution In the 1960s, campus radicals were branded the New Left. The media saw the m\u00e9lange of radicals like Bill Ayers, David Delinger, Jane Fonda, Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, Herbert Marcuse, Jerry Rubin\u2014as well as hippies, the Black Panthers, the gay liberation movement, La Raza, women\u2019s liberation, draft resistance, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1207,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-30D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13520,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/this-isnt-your-fathers-left-wing-revolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":11571,"position":0},"title":"This Isn&#8217;t Your Father&#8217;s Left-Wing Revolution","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 10, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Image by Darren415 iStock Getty Images Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed that they either were going to take over America or destroy it.\u00a0 One of their favorite psychodramatic mottos was \u201cChange it or Lose it,\u201d even as protests focused on drugs,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/this-isnt-your-fathers-left-wing-revolution\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/iStock-1289282832-e1623340140911.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/iStock-1289282832-e1623340140911.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/iStock-1289282832-e1623340140911.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/iStock-1289282832-e1623340140911.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/iStock-1289282832-e1623340140911.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12169,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-there-is-no-normal\/","url_meta":{"origin":11571,"position":1},"title":"When There Is No Normal","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review One of the ancient and modern critiques of democracy is that radicals destroy norms for short-term political gain, norms that they themselves often later seek as refuge. 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