Revolution in the air: sixties radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che

Abstract

Revolution in the Air is the first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968. It tells the story of the new communist movement, which was the most racially integrated and fast-growing movement on the Left. Thousands of young activists, radicalized by the Vietnam War and Black Liberation, and spurred on by the Puerto Rican, Chicano and Asian-American movements, embraced a Third World oriented version of Marxism. These admirers of Mao, Che and Amilcar Cabral organized resistance to the republican majorities of Nixon and Ford. By the 1980s these groups had either collapsed or become tiny shards of the dream of a Maoist world revolution.

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