The Old Left thrived across Eurasia and the Third World in the early 1960s

Evidence

Outside of North America, the Old Left was very much alive. Marxist-Leninist parties comfortably governed most of the Eurasian continent. In the Third World, the official Communist organizational model offered the hope of catching up with the world’s advanced First World nations and provided an excellent way to carry out the anti-colonial struggle against rapacious European powers. Even some countries that had suppressed local Communist parties, such as Egypt under Gamal Nasser, received support from the USSR and attempted to implement some parts of the Soviet model. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 86

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The New Left crystallized in 1967-68 after divergent national origins — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 662; Postwar social revolutions transformed state and class structures from below outside Europe — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1074; A new anticommunist Third-Worldist intellectual displaced traditional left affiliations after 1975 — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 791 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Global anti-capitalist revolution retreated by the mid-1970s #expands (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 271
• The New Left crystallized in 1967-68 after divergent national origins #expands (0.78) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 662
• A new anticommunist Third-Worldist intellectual displaced traditional left affiliations after 1975 #complicates (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 791
• Postwar genuine revolutions occurred on three continents beyond Europe. #corroborates (0.73) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1084
• Postwar social revolutions transformed state and class structures from below outside Europe #corroborates (0.72) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1074
• The 1956 New Left emerged from a third-position third-world student milieu #qualifies (0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 930
• A new Left intellectual type combined Third World rhetoric with anti-communism #complicates (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 356