Commentary By the late 1970s, after fantasies of overt political revolution faded, many student radicals urged their followers to undertake the “long march through the institutions.” The phrase, popularized by the German New Leftist Rudi Dutschke, is often attributed to the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci—an unimpeachable authority for countercultural standard-bearers. But of course the…
A Near Call: Whether the Left Will Implode or Triumph
Commentary Here’s a question that I do not know the answer to: “Is the Left on the Cusp of Permanent Triumph, Or Is It Committing Suicide?” That’s the title of an essay by Francis Menton at his blog Manhattan Contrarian. Menton points out that the sudden acceleration of “cancel culture” and social media “de-platforming” are only two…
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