The New Left, the new class and socialism [1]

Representing the Worker: The Worker-Intellectual Alliance of the 1980s in South Korea

“…The discourse of moral privilege was of course not unique to the South Korean social movement; from the 1960s' New Left in the West to Tiananmen in China, social protest represented a moral critique of society and was framed in terms of moral righteousness (see, for example, Levitt 1979;Perry 1992, 152). But in South Korea, the discourse was injected with urgency and potency by what was perceived to be the distinctive historical experience of modern Korea: its colonial past and the divided state.…”

Generations, Age Groups and Cohorts: Conceputal Distinctions

“…(Mannheim, 1952:304). It becomes a sociological task to describe the social construction of generational consciousness (see, for example, L. Jones, 1982, on the "baby boom" generation; Howard Becker, 1946, on "Hitler Youth" and C. Levitt, 1979, andR. Flacks, 1967, on "Sixties Radicals".…”

The ?new class?

“…Writers in both volumes point to the "new class's" becoming a target of political hostility in its own right. Cyril Levitt recently pointed out in this journal [2] the extent to which the student activists of the 1960s graduated to become -with only marginal shifts of ideological stance -welfare state functionaries of the 1970s. Nixon's former theorist Kevin Phillips (in Bruce-Briggs' volume) expands the observation -the growth of working and lower middle class populism in the U.S.A. expresses (especially in anti-tax, anti-bussing, etc.…”