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In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion," that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the Absurd. In Return Of The Primitive (originally published in 1971 as The New Left), Ayn Rand, bestselling novelist and originator of the theory of Objectivism, identified the intellectual roots of this movement. She urged people to repudiate its mindless nihilism and to uphold, instead, a philosophy of reason, individualism, capitalism, and technological progress. Editor Peter Schwartz, in this new, expanded version of The New Left, has reorganized Rand's essays and added some of his own in order to underscore the continuing relevance of her analysis of that period. He examines such current ideologies as feminism, environmentalism and multiculturalism and argues that the same primitive, tribalist, "anti-industrial" mentality which animated the New Left a generation ago is shaping society today.
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Technology and civilization, New Left, New leftPlaces
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The Return of the Primitive
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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Return of the primitive: the anti-industrial revolution
1999, Meridian
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- New expanded ed. of The New Left : the anti-industrial revolution.
0452011841 9780452011847
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Includes bibliographical references.
Comprises, in addition to three articles by Peter Schwartz, the text of the original ed. of The New Left, supplemented by two Ayn Rand articles, "Racism" and "Global Balkanization" previously published elsewhere. Cf. p. ix.
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