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  Which left is your favorite? (search mode)
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Question: Well?
#1
The Old Left (1864-1956)
 
#2
The New Left (1956-1989)
 
#3
The Postmodern Left (1989-2011)
 
#4
The Emerging Left (2011-)
 
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Mr. Smith
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« on: February 27, 2015, 08:00:45 AM »
« edited: February 27, 2015, 11:04:48 AM by L.D. Smith, Knight of Appalachia »

New Left got the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and started the quest to improve mental health.

The Old Left is a narrow second (and my own spectrum results are definitively more of this mold), but ultimately it failed to combat racism.

The Post-Modern left is okay, if a bit elitist and economically disgusting.

F%^ the "Emerging Left".
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Mr. Smith
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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2015, 08:10:09 AM »

New Left got the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and started the quest to improve mental health.

The Old Left is a narrow second, but ultimately it failed to combat racism...meaningfully

The Post-Modern left is okay, if a bit elitist and economically disgusting.

F%^ the "Emerging Left".

[citation needed]


What do you mean "citation needed", anyone could tell you FDR dropped the ball on anti-lynching bills left and right. And anyone could tell you about Jim Crow which lurked away until '54 brought some of it to light with Brown v. Board of Education.

Oh yeah, the New Left also had the War on Poverty.
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Mr. Smith
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« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2015, 08:49:51 AM »

I'm not talking about the Democratic Party. This is the 'left', i.e. the socialist movement throughout the years.

There's also the Free Speech Movement, the beginning of environmental awareness such as the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the banning of DDT, the EPA.

It's the New Left that brought these, along with Civil Rights, and the growing inequalities to light in the first place that even got LBJ's attention.
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