| 释义 |
New Left, new left
[Phr. coined by C. Wright Mills (1916–62), American political sociologist.]
The name of a movement originated by young radicals opposed to the philosophy of the ‘old’ liberal society; now applied to many movements of protest. Also attrib. Hence New Lefter, New Lefty, a supporter of radical policies; New Leftish a., New Leftist a. and n.
1960New Left Rev. Jan.–Feb. 1 Our hope is that people in the New Left will feel, with a special urgency, the poverty of ideas in the Labour Movement. Ibid. Mar.–Apr. 70/2 The ‘anarchism’ of young New Lefters. Ibid. Sept.–Oct. 15/2 Stop the new-leftist dogs from yapping. 1960New Lefty [see hobohemia]. 1961New Left Rev. Jan.–Feb. 51/1 What can..be called ‘new left’ student opinion. 1966Economist 3 Sept. 887/1 The phrase ‘new left’ is applied to all sorts of protesters in the United States, to Provos in Amsterdam, to dissatisfied intellectuals in eastern Europe. 1967Philosophy XLII. 287 The emphasis is rather New-Leftish and Gramscian. 1967Time 28 Apr. 15 The New Leftists have a mystical faith in the purity and wisdom of the poor, ‘uncorrupted’ by the Establishment. 1968Listener 3 Oct. 442/1 The would-be Monday Clubber and the New Lefter will both shut up when they hear of the accident in the Headrow. 1971Daily Tel. 18 Nov. 15/3 Berkeley City Council—first and only city government in America to represent the ‘New Left’—has passed an astonishing resolution..to offer asylum to military deserters. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Nov. 1422/5 Whose sympathies are clearly more towards the New Left than towards bureaucratic communism. 1975Listener 13 Feb. 209/1 All over Europe in the Sixties you could see a proliferation of political sects—Marxists, Trotskyists, Maoists, Castroists... This New Left..was, above all, a manifestation of youth. |