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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.