Was thinking about this intellectual period last night. I don’t know a lot but I get the vague impression of it being too much on the revisionist side for my taste, although the label New Left is so broad that I’m sure there’s a huge span of thought that it gets applied to.
What theory still holds up from that time, what theorists do you agree/disagree with, what texts would you recommend to people who want to understand more about this time, t’s origins,links to the French 1968 movement ,etc?
I’d recommend checking out some of the stuff Gabriel Rockhill has been cooking up lately about the New Left and Western Marxism more broadly. He’s working on a book on the topic and his articles and interviews lately have been pretty interesting.
I haven’t watched this yet (I just found this trying to recommend you something) but it looks like a good summary of his work - a lecture called The Imperial Theory Industry & the Compatible Left Intelligentsia
(I should add that while I haven’t watched this, now that I know it exists I am going to.)