New Left

English

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the New Left

  1. (historical, politics) A broad political movement, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, made up of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a range of reforms on issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, and the legalization of drugs.
    Coordinate term: New Right
    • 1968 July 5, “The ‘New Left’”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 September 2025:
      The New Left is a product of popular affluence and social change—once the revolutionary goals of the European Left; it does not arise from mass oppression.
    • 2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
      In theory the New Left wanted to remake society, but in practice old divisions of labor went unchallenged: men got all the glory, becoming leaders and spokespeople, while women were left with the dull office work, their efforts invisible behind the scenes.

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