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Isolation of the New Left
Gershman, Carl | May 26, 1969 issue

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The article presents information on the political movement in the U.S. during the late 1960's. The urban and racial crises, together with protests against the war in Vietnam, encouraged the Left to believe that Americans in impressive numbers were prepared to break with the system. New Left demonstrations against the elections at schools, universities and polling places had a negligible effect. The New Left "offensive" is limited to the university indicates the movement's failure to gain power within the larger society. New Leftists explain their isolation as being the result of the manipulation of the rest of society by a seemingly tolerant but actually repressive elite.

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RIGHT & left (Political science); POLITICAL movements; UNITED States -- Politics & government; DEMONSTRATIONS; SOCIAL movements; UNITED States
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