Howe, Irving.

New Styles in “Leftism” – Ideologues and Desperadoes – The Cult of Verbal Violence – Charismatic Leaders and Authoritarian States – The Decline of the West – Politics as Style.

New York, DISSENT, 1965. 8°. 31 pages. Softcover. Stapled offprint from “Dissent” – 1965.

“The Society we live in fails to elicit the idealism of the more rebellious and generous young”.

″The ‘new leftism’ appears at a moment when the intellectual and academic worlds – and not they alone – are experiencing an intense and largely justifiable revulsion against the immediate American past. Many people are sick unto death of the whole structure of feeling – that mixture of chauvinism, hysteria and demagogy – which was created during the Cold War years. Like children subjected to forced feeding, they regurgitate almost automatically. Their response in an invetiable consequence of over-organizing the propaganda resources of a modern state; exactly the same sort of nausea exists among the young in the Communist world.”

• Keywords: Authoritarianism · Catalogue No.19 – American History and Politics · Pamphlets · Political Activism · Political Science – Rare · Sociology – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 18212AB

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