The draft radicalized college students into the New Left

Evidence

It was the war in Vietnam, and the experience of protesting against it, that ”radicalized” most of the students who joined the New Left in the sixties … I do not think (and this is essentially by now a truism) that the New Left agendas for universal social and economic equality and justice, personal meaningfulness, and participatory democracy embodied in The Port Huron Statement would have taken hold as they did without the urgency of the war, particularly the urgency of the war drafting, wounding, and killing college students. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 691

Categorization

• XREF: Directly puts meat on the book_so_far claim that the socialist meaning of participatory democracy faded while politics-of-the-self triumphed — proximity of death is the engine. — connects to: Six persistent structural grievances sustained the student movement’s radicalization; The 1956 New Left emerged from a third-position third-world student milieu — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 930; 1960s radicals traded independent critique for safe university careers. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2622 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Six persistent structural grievances sustained the student movement’s radicalization #expands (0.85)
• 1960s radicals traded independent critique for safe university careers. #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2622
• Repeated disillusion pushed liberal moderates toward revolutionary extremism #expands (0.80)
• The 1956 New Left emerged from a third-position third-world student milieu #expands (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 930