French New Left students embraced Third World revolutionaries over the pro-Soviet PCF

Evidence

In France in the 1960s, the radical left-wing students were not orphans like their North American counterparts. They had grown up in dialogue with the powerful Parti Communiste Français (PCF). The young New Left there were often Leninists themselves, but of a different type. They were more likely to support Third World revolutionaries, whom they often viewed as the true subjects of world history, the heroic protagonists pushing human progress forward. Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh’s presence hung over their gatherings, on placards or in chants, while the established party, the pro-Soviet PCF, was more focused on the French working class organized in its unions. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 90

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the chapter’s running thesis across countries: each national New Left had distinct reference points (civil rights in US, PCF/Leninism here, Vietnam everywhere). — connects to: French New Left students remained Leninists oriented toward Third World revolution — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 90; A new Left intellectual type combined Third World rhetoric with anti-communism — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 356; The 1956 New Left emerged from a third-position third-world student milieu — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 930 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• French New Left students remained Leninists oriented toward Third World revolution #corroborates (0.93) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 90
• A new Left intellectual type combined Third World rhetoric with anti-communism #expands (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 356
• The 1956 New Left emerged from a third-position third-world student milieu #corroborates (0.82) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 930
• A new anticommunist Third-Worldist intellectual displaced traditional left affiliations after 1975 #expands (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 791
• The French Communist Party saw colonial revolts as key to global proletarian revolution #complicates (0.74) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 562