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HS A-85 Lecture #15: The Sixties, Part I: “The New Left and the Counter Culture” Tuesday, April 3, 2007. The New Left: What was it? Who participated? SLID (Student League for Industrial Democracy) became SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) in 1960, Port Huron Statement (1962)
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HS A-85 Lecture #15: The Sixties, Part I:“The New Left and the Counter Culture”Tuesday, April 3, 2007 • The New Left: What was it? Who participated? SLID (Student League for Industrial Democracy) became SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) in 1960, Port Huron Statement (1962) Stages: dissent, resistance, revolution • Why did it emerge? baby boom generational consciousness and intense peer experience civil rights movement as inspiration and model Eichmann trial a reminder of individual responsibility in modern bureaucratic state and war machine • What was accomplished? Legacy of New Left for Left and Right • How linked to the counter culture? Intertwined over necessity of individual change and had similar limitations • What happened to Sixties activists and their goals? Some reconnected to Dem Party, some organized social movements of ’70s, some joined “helping professions,” some “sold out”