Beyond Containment: The Left-Wing Movement in Literature, 1945–1989

Ira Katznelson's paper should be welcomed because it contributes to an urgently needed debate. One of the less-noted consequences of the breakup of the social movements of the sixties and seventies and of the disintegration of “Old Left” organizations has been the disappearance of relevant forums for discussing the overall direction of left-wing politics.The collapse and shattering of the left-wing movement of the sixties and early seventies and its dispersion into pockets of isolated separate issues and ad hoc social movements has reached such a state that it threatens the Left's ability to discuss larger issues of strategy and tactics.

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Ideology: Too much or too little? Fragmentation in the Dutch left-wing movement

Civil Societies Compared: Germany and the Netherlands ◽

10.5771/9783845235592-123 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 123-141

Author(s):

Marije Boekkooi

Keyword(s):

Left Wing ◽

Wing Movement

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Literary Reportage in the Left-Wing Movement of the 1920s and 1930s

Inside a Service Trade ◽

10.2307/j.ctt1dnnbrd.20 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 325-358

Keyword(s):

Left Wing ◽

Wing Movement

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Southern Key ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190079321.003.0009 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 331-369

Author(s):

Michael Goldfield

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Communist Party ◽

Trade Union ◽

Complex Behavior ◽

Left Wing ◽

Wing Movement ◽

Left Group ◽

The Soviet Union

Chapter 8 examines the role of the Communist Party, by far the largest Left group, during the 1930s and 1940s. It looks at the Party’s complex behavior, its many pluses and minuses, and its ties to the Soviet Union. In particular, it examines the role of CP activists as trade union militants and as the unabashed and unrelenting champions of civil rights, a role that distinguished them from the members of all other interracial organizations during this period. Yet it also looks at the Party’s role in demoralizing and destroying the left-wing movement in the 1930s and 1940s, even undermining many of the organizations and movements it had helped create, including those dedicated to civil rights.

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