https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/14/americas-latest-far-left-surge-could-take-over-jus/America's latest far-left surge could take over, just as it's doing in EuropeBy Daniel Pipes
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Street riots, eminent liberals fired, the Democratic Party veering sharply left: These trace directly back to events of 50 years ago.
“The 1960s†(which in fact ran from 1965 to 1975) was a decade of massive change, a rebellion against the stability, growth and (yes) smugness of the immediate post-World War II era, 1945-65. The ’60s are now remembered primarily as a time of youthful rebellion, of sex, drugs and rock ’n roll.
University hippies in Volkswagen microbuses decorated with peace signs represented the vanguard; mellow students followed. Woodstock represented the heights and Altamont Free Concert the depths. British poet Philip Larkin memorialized this spirit in a famous poem with its first line, “Sexual intercourse began/In nineteen sixty-three/(which was rather late for me).â€
But it was not all fun, the leftists of yore adopted classic themes of Marxism-Leninism, focusing on imperialism and insisting that the Western wealth came from plundering the rest of the world. The imperialist system, with its perpetual drive for new markets on which to dump its industrial surplus, stood as humanity’s central evil; the war in Vietnam supremely represented its rapaciousness.
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