欧洲“新左派”的开创性历史,从20世纪20年代的反法西斯到60年代的反建制
20世纪60年代,西欧新左派的激进青年反抗民主福利国家及其父母陈旧的改革政治。这不是第一次在旧社会的废墟上建立起一场暴发户式的左翼运动。这本书追溯了新eftism的历史,从20世纪上半叶的反法西斯根源,到20世纪50年代的战后重建,再到20世纪60年代反文化的爆炸性重塑。
特伦斯·雷诺(Terence Renaud)展示了欧洲左派为何经历了一系列内部反抗既定政党和工会的组织形式。他描述了像德国新起点这样的小规模激进青年团体如何试图维持草根运动,而不复制官僚、等级制度和被认为过时的社会民主和共产主义结构。新左派武装分子尝试了其他组织模式,如议会、议会和行动委员会。然而,雷诺透露,几十年后,这些激进分子经常来捍卫他们年轻时反对的机构。
这本书从重要的历史角度阐述了当今左派所面临的挑战,讲述了几代人的反法西斯者、左派社会主义者和反威权主义者的故事,他们试图建立资本主义的激进民主替代方案,并在反动时代点燃希望。
New Lefts: The Making of a Radical Tradition (EPUB)
A groundbreaking history of Europe’s “new lefts,” from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960s
In the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe’s New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents’ antiquated politics of reform. It was not the first time an upstart leftist movement was built on the ruins of the old. This book traces the history of neoleftism from its antifascist roots in the first half of the twentieth century, to its postwar reconstruction in the 1950s, to its explosive reinvention by the 1960s counterculture.
Terence Renaud demonstrates why the left in Europe underwent a series of internal revolts against the organizational forms of established parties and unions. He describes how small groups of militant youth such as New Beginning in Germany tried to sustain grassroots movements without reproducing the bureaucratic, hierarchical, and supposedly obsolete structures of Social Democracy and Communism. Neoleftist militants experimented with alternative modes of organization such as councils, assemblies, and action committees. However, Renaud reveals that these same militants, decades later, often came to defend the very institutions they had opposed in their youth.
Providing vital historical perspective on the challenges confronting leftists today, this book tells the story of generations of antifascists, left socialists, and anti-authoritarians who tried to build radical democratic alternatives to capitalism and kindle hope in reactionary times.
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