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Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s, Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American Left as a consistent critic of the foreign policy of the United States, contemporary capitalism, and corporatocracy.
Herbert Marcuse
German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
Black Panther Party
US Black power organization (1966–1982)
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care (1903-1998)
Murray Bookchin
American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)
Neil Postman
American writer and academic (1931-2003)
New Left
international leftist political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s
Socialist Left Party
Norwegian political party
socialist feminism
ideology that seeks liberation from economic and cultural sources of women's oppression
Neo-Marxism
Neo-Marxism is a collection of Marxist schools of thought originating from 20th-century approaches to amend or extend Marxism and Marxist theory, typically by incorporating elements from other intellectual traditions such as critical theory, psychoanalysis, or existentialism. Neo-Marxism comes under the broader framework of the New Left. In a sociological sense, neo-Marxism adds Max Weber's broader understanding of social inequality, such as status and power, to Marxist philosophy.
Abbie Hoffman
American activist (1936–1989)
Die Tageszeitung
German daily newspaper
Green Left
left-wing political party in Denmark
Weather Underground
American far-left militant organization, 1969–77
Bobby Seale
co-founder of the Black Panther Party (born 1936)
Saul Alinsky
American community organizer and writer (1909–1972)
Paul Goodman
American writer and public intellectual (1911–1972)
Revolution
original song written and composed by Lennon–McCartney; first recorded and released by The Beatles
Dialectic of Enlightenment
essay by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
Jerry Rubin
American activist (1938–1994)
New Left Review
journal
Erik Olin Wright
American sociologist (1947-2019)
Juliet Mitchell
Feminist psychologist
Socialist Workers Party
political party in the United States
David Horowitz
Neoconservative activist, writer
Bill Ayers
professor and activist
Free Speech Movement
1964–65 acts of civil disobedience by students of UC Berkeley, California
Students for a Democratic Society
student activist movement, defunct
Youth International Party
1960s American youth-oriented counter-cultural political party
Tom Hayden
American activist (1939–2016)
George Jackson
activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family
German student movement
1968 anti-government mass protests by West German students
Unified Socialist Party
French political party (1960-1990)
Black Liberation Army
American underground, black nationalist militant organization
Bernardine Dohrn
American radical activist and law professor
Political Party of Radicals
Dutch political party
Revolutionary Communist Party
USA political party (1975-)
Pacifist Socialist Party
political party
Peter Worsley
British sociologist (1924–2013)
Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union
political party in the Soviet Union
Anti-Japaneseism
was a radical ideology promoted by a faction of the Japanese New Left that advocated for the destruction of the nation of Japan. The ideology was first conceived by Katsuhisa Ōmori, a member of the New Left, in the 1970s. Extending from anti-Japanese sentiments and viewpoints such as the Ainu Revolution Theory, it claimed that "the nation called Japan and the entire Japanese race should be extinguished from the face of the earth". Anti-Japaneseism makes claims that go far back in history, denying the founding of Japan and the history of the Japanese people. It advocated for the extermination o
Diggers
community anarchist group
Port Huron Statement
1962 political manifesto written by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
New Communist Movement
diverse left-wing political movement in the 1970s and 1980s
Stew Albert
American political activist (1939-2006)
Progressive Labor Party
American political party
Party of New Communists
political party in the Soviet Union
New American Movement
left-wing political movement founded in 1971
Dissent
American leftist magazine
Up Against the Wall Motherfucker
American anarchist affinity group (1967-1969)
United Freedom Front
American Marxist terrorist group (1975-1984)
Popular socialism (Nordic countries)
type of left-wing ideology
long march through the institutions
strategy of building skills and counterinstitutions
Rainbow Coalition
multicultural movement founded in 1969