The New Left

The New Left was an international political and social movement that emerged in the 1960s, distinct from traditional Marxist or Old Left politics. It expanded the definition of culture and politics beyond economics, encompassed diverse national origins and crystallized around 1967-68, and anticipated later new social movements by rejecting economic determinism as central to political thought.

Claims that use this term

• The New Left expanded rather than collapsed the definition of culture and politics
• The New Left crystallized in 1967-68 after divergent national origins
• The New Left predated and anticipated the era of new social movements.
• The New Left rejected economic thought as the essence of bourgeois contempt