1) Been thinking a bit recently about generational differences and historical understanding within the US Left, so a short essay:
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2) I'd hardly be the first to observe that the younger generation of leftists in the US is more openly leftist than in previous generations
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3) I'm thinking here of the Jacobin Club, the younger generation at Dissent, folks like
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4) By contrast, there is are somewhat older social democratic intellectuals, like
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5) Both of these groups are intelligent, thoughtful, and well-versed in US and world history
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6) But it seems to me that they draw very different lessons from twentieth-century history, and that there is a generational element to that
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7) The older social democrats lived through really-existing socialism, and dislike any kind of palling around with left authoritarianism
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@PatrickIber Exactly the division between Irving Howe and the New Left (SDS) in 1965
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