USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the United States, the “New Left” was the name loosely associated with liberal, radical, Marxist political movements that took place during the 1960s, primarily among college students. At the core of this was the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

Detailed explanation-2: -Political scientists and other analysts regard the left as including anarchists, communists, socialists, democratic socialists, social democrats, left-libertarians, progressives, and social liberals. Movements for racial equality, as well as trade unionism, have also been associated with the left.

Detailed explanation-3: -Unlike the New Left, the Old Left puts less emphasis on social issues such as abortion, drugs, feminism, gay rights, gender roles, immigration and abolition of the capital punishment.

Detailed explanation-4: -Because of his willingness to speak at student protests and his essay “Repressive Tolerance” (1965), Marcuse soon became known in the media as “Father of the New Left."