The New Left predated and anticipated the era of new social movements.

Evidence

Remember, there was no such thing as a “new social movement” then. We hadn’t identified this as a new phase (or form) of politics. We thought we were still in the old political game but conducting it in a rather new way. It’s only retrospectively that we came to understand that New Left as an early anticipation of the era of the “new social movements.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 789

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The New Left’s communal we was an aggregate of consenting individuals — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 451