I thought I'd delete the generic comment I had here and return to this video in 2024 to address the one main criticism that people seem to have of it, which doesn't have to do with the content itself, but I suppose is worth addressing: my body language. I'm not someone who enjoys public speaking. I've never in my life wanted to do it. Doing it on such sensitive issue - issues that are bound to upset a lot of people - is especially uncomfortable for me. I started making these videos, not because I wanted to be a public figure, but because I thought having this content be publicly and freely available was socially important and worth my time and efforts. I also thought putting a face behind the content (and not just narrate to visuals) was the right thing to do, so you could see the person making these claims and judge my character for yourself. What you see on screen is my grappling with all that. In practice that meant I had a hard time thinking while also looking into the camera, so for this video I looked off to the side to gather my thoughts if I had to think mid-sentence. This is also one of the earlier videos, and my later ones are much more comfortable. I've even begun to enjoy speaking on camera on some level, though I'd still rather not. I don't have much to add besides that. Hope you enjoyed the vid! - Ryan
Some good advice for the improvement for the left - Reject the f3m1nism rampant in the left wing. You can't improve society when a hate movement holding the reins
@22:05 - ''So, the equal rights didn't pass. But it wasn't because of men. A conservative w man stop it'' - ''But that's another story''(you don't want to deal with this issue) That's right. Men were never against equality. Conservative w men saw their PRIVILEGES under attack and took action
@@V-RADIO you do post consistently enough which the algorithm likes, but the titles and thumbnails of your videos are messy and confusing. Meaning the algorithm doesn't understand which audiences would want to see your content. They give off conspiracy theory vibes, not "I've done hours of research and have put together an analysis based on x theory with y number of first hand accounts". So the audience for this video wouldn't be interested in your stuff until you figure out how to appropriately market your channel. Hope that helps
There's a consistent down playing of the negative aspects of the Right, and an often wtf overinflation of the negative side of the Left. Usually, despite the delivery, David either doesn't understand many of the aspects of the Left he covers, or he's purposely misinforming people. I hope it's the former.
As is an understanding of the Frankfurt School and critical theory in the post war years before the 60's. Literally the ideological forerunner of the deconstructionist worldview.
This is an exceptional piece of original work. I was an SDS member, but among those who didn't realize what it was until 1968, when I began to understand where Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn were taking this group. Then powerful outside groups, like the Institute for Policy Studies, began to move in to take over grass-roots political groups. There still there now, working behind the political curtain to realize their nightmare, as they did with Antifa and Extinction Rebellion. Your question as to why this period isn't studied or taught authentically deserves an answer. I think it's because the ghosts still haunt us as a nation, and powerful people don't want us to know their own connection with all of this. Thanks again. Dr. Darrell Whitman
It is a common trajectory for well meaning protest or alternative groups to be taken over by more radical players. Infiltrate and push out 'softies' and build yr powerbase. Quite often this leads to eventual self destruction ( like the Black Panthers, the German Red Brigade etc) unless they play the political long game of hiding their motives and require influence and money over time. We are talking Greenpeace and the overall Green Agenda, basically fascists in disguise.
I rarely feel compelled to comment on anything, but I’m so glad I stumbled across this channel a few days ago. Your content is so well-studied, educational, unbiased, and it has references! This is gold.
Extremely well done -- I grew up as a white boy in the civil rights movement in the South -- my mom & protestant minister dad moved to Memphis in 1961 to be part of the movement (they were aligned with MLK's SCLC - so clearly on the 'liberal' wing of the movement. So, I grew up listening to the liberal vs radical arguments.) - and I grew up on a college campus and saw the development of the student movement there -- and then in the 70s I dealt with coming out as gay ... so I lived through a lot of this. THE key event to explain why the GLF's (founded 1969) Marxist approach didn't take hold, and why the SDS collapsed in 68/69, was leftists' reaction to the Soviet's brutal crackdown in Czechoslovakia in 1968 after the Prague Spring (which was seen by lots of Marxists and socialists in the US as an example of workable communism without the heavy-handed Soviet police state). It really did have the effect of making labeling yourself Marxist or communist much more difficult, especially in 1969.
Hi I’m 38 and grew up in South Carolina with Republican parents who valued what I’d call classical liberalism nowadays and thought that republicans were always the home of the civil rights movement. Not that either party really has an interest beyond their own, but what do you think about “the big switch”?
Yeah, that whole civil rights movement was and is a Marxist plot to overthrow God-fearing American values. It must be defeated at all costs. No one deserves rights.
@@flyingmonkey3822 I'm 38 and grew up in North Carolina with Republican Southern Baptist parents and always understood that "the big switch" was a real thing that happened, which was further engrained as I worked at a Civil War historic site in my late teens. Some former "Dixiecrats" were still serving while we were alive, I KNOW you're familiar with Strom T., he flipped parties in the 60s saying the D's no longer represented his "values". To me, when I was younger at least, Dems always represented corruption, cities, "sleeze", etc. But the Republican's were pro-war (Iraq)/military, low taxes, cutting funding to social programs, and most of all - the "Moral" Majority, Christians who wanted to dictate how everyone else got to live. That's what ultimately lost me and made me leave that party in my early 20s.
@@Aaronnail83 I graduated college in ‘06 and Bush was the keynote speaker! Later I found out what a neocon was and while bussing tables in Long Island country clubs on the weekends it never occurred to me that there were “rich republicans”, the rich and city dwellers were all democrats. It seems that the controlling interests behind the republicans changed to trying to influence the democrats around the time of Al Gore and the rise of big tech. But overall I wouldn’t say that racism defined why someone joined a party until the democrats began race baiting during Obama’s time. Trump was a lifelong democrat but gained the Republican nomination by claiming to offer a solution to Republican corruption. Bernie Sanders is an outright socialist and communist sympathizer who honeymooned in Moscow, but no one ever painted him kissing Putin bc they were able to steal his nomination which he won by claiming to be also an alternative to Democrat corruption. The binary is false, both parties have abandoned the center and the sneeches on the beaches have painted stars upon thars too many times to say definitively that one is good and the other bad. At this point I’m libertarian and hopeful that we can simply restrain the power each party has at all so that we can coexist somehow. I don’t want my kids embroiled in a civil war.
I was in SDS in Ann Arbor in the late sixties. I think your overview is fair. I would just like to add three points. First, while SDS was a national organization, each chapter on each campus determined its policy objectives without input from any national body. In Ann Arbor, we would have resisted any attempt at oversight. Second, most of the time was spent in endless meetings. Third, there was internal pressure to "pick up the gun". We were all raised in peaceful middle-class homes. There was always the sense that if things got too crazy we could just walk away ... which most of us did.
Some writer theorized that the disorganization of the New Left was due to the fact that there were no experienced Old Left leaders left after McCarthy. Someone brought two figures from each together for a discussion. The Old Left figure played a pompous, rigid role. The New Left guy played an impulsive, rebellious role. It didn't work out too well, but both sides later acknowledged their faults.
we would have aited for the taco stands to circle the wagons and get to point B self determinism but Dylan sang " like a slave in orbit he's beaten till he.s tame..... and i give up but remember La Huelga---the struggle......and we radicals are probably no middle class...which for touchy reasons i hated...now i am a recepient of an army disabled pension....i respect all you lls struggle for self determination....
I was around during this time too but wasn't a part of any particular group. Still, those I knew were indeed pretty radical. Still, we were scared of the SDS and groups like the Weathermen. To us, these groups were far too extreme. We wanted eventual harmony not the overthrow of the government ... just change for a more peaceful world. (We were pretty danged naive. HAHA!)
It’s so eye-opening to see this 60 years later. It is impossible to overstate how obvious that in the end, none of these groups want to “level the playing field”. They see an oppressive power structure that they want to overthrow so that *they* can become the new oppressive power structure.
The SDS platform was CLASSIC Marxist Mott and Bailey, a cheap slight of hand. That guy in Berkeley incidentally was a family friend of my Dad's. My mom was center right leaning, but didn't often led on to how idiotic a lot of my Dad's ideas were. It was the 60's.
Agreed, these guys need all the support on patreon and the like. I hope he's able to keep pushing! It'll be a slow grind but great content always, eventually rises to the top.
@No One Yippies were members of the Youth International Party. The two big personalities were Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Where most of the new left would be considered maoist, the yippies were more fluid, though closer to anarchist/libertarian socialist. They were a much more theatrical organization with much less involvement in violence or outright terrorism. Also, yuppies were baby boomers rather than gen x and were continuing on from hippies, through yippies and then to yuppies.
@@isabelgellibrandi7496 While Rubin became the quintessential yuppie, you can't say the same of Abbie Hoffman. After going underground and under an assumed name, he became a very active environmental activist, fighting the system that initially tried to sweep the Love Canal disaster under the carpet. He was politically consistent and much more articulate than Jerry Rubin. His suicide was as much a protest against the yuppies' self-centeredness as out of personal depression. On a personal note, I first encountered Abbie on October 21, 1967, date of my first arrest for trying to levitate the Pentagon. No sense of humor in the government. Anyway, he was kind, funny and brilliant. I'd also add that most of the New Left was not Maoist in either theory or praxis.
This is probably the most informative channel I have recently found (or, rather, been recommended) on UA-cam. The key draw is just your presentations style and the very educative way you display pictures, use short video clips, and highlight text from books. You would make a great professor I think. I also hope you are doing OK and staying healthy, Ryan.
yea ive enjoyed his videos. if youd like other recommendations - not only do i have a categorized list on my channel's playlists, but the Michael Sugrue channel as well as New Discourses channel are great
Just for perspective if a truck driver is late dropping off a shipment he has to explain why and what steps he took and will take in the future. If an intellectual presents ideas and draws faulty conclusions from faulty and singular perceptions………..there’s no accountability.
I was a child in the sixties. I remember the protests and marches but understood nothing about it. I was never clear on the subject. I’m much clearer after watching this. You made it easy to follow. Good job.
That's awesome! I guess that would be like me in the 2000s. How actually was it in the 60s? I feel like I want to like this time, I am a left-winger, after all, but when I look back at the old footage and what it seemed to be like, I get chills of terror. I best describe this time as "Satan running wild"; everything we experience in the 2010s and 2020s is nothing compared to the 60s; they rhyme but what was going on in the 60s was way, way darker. It just really creeps me out. You had real, violent racists (not just people we label as such, but the real deal), you had environmental pollution and destruction we can't even imagine today, we don't realize just how spoiled we actually are. I enjoyed 2020 and wish it went further; people went about those protests almost like it was fun, compared to the Civil Rights protests; people got beaten near to death back then and kept going, that was serious life-or-death stuff.
In 1969, for some unfathomable reason I sat next to Stokley on a flight from Chicago To Savana. I was a 14 year old kid and had no clue who Mr. Carmichael was. But for well two hours I sat next to and talked with, a very nice and inquisitive man. Here I was a white Catholic kid from Utah and now that I have reflect upon it, what an anomaly we both were to one another. The one thing that has always stayed with me was his tolerance and patience with my naive questions and complete lack of understanding of the mentality of Bull Connors, Segregation, and Jim Crow. God bless you Stokley . Thanks to you, I never stopped learning.
Carmichael being a grown man at the time you describe, and your being 14, I would argue his failure to be inquisitive enough. There you were ( and are) just getting on with life trying to do your best like anyone else. You had (and have) fxxx all to do with Jim Crow laws, or oppressing anybody, or doing anything to disoblige Carmichael or anyone else. You were an obstinately real bit of evidence that his crackpot, mean spirited, shallow ideas, cut and pasted from the awful brute buried in North London were just that. So I guess he spent the flight thrashing out a workaround. You were a good kid, eager to please your elders. He was the xxxxx who xxxxx up the work of Dr King, who was a great man.
Kudos to your 14 year old self to have had sufficient confidence and curiosity to engage in a conversation with an adult so that he deemed it worth his time to take seriously.
My father had a similar story. I grew up in Oakland and he actually met Huey Newton )founder of the Black Panthers) in a bar. My dad being a young white college graduate had a productive and friendly conversation with him as well. We all used to speak and listen very well. A far cry from those who just cancel censor and scream now.
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen on UA-cam, and I've seen far too many. This is the first time I'm goving money on youtube. Your channel is a veritable goldmine. Thank you for your work, and may you keep doing it.
The Weathermen, aka the Weather Underground, didn’t kill anyone in their bombings (except 3 of their own group) but they did rob a Brink’s truck and killed two Brinks security guards. Two members of the Weather Underground, David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, went to jail for over 20 years for that crime. They had a son together, who became the now recalled DA of San Francisco - Chesa Boudin.
And most were jews who are sitting on their hands during the genocide in the middle east.And dont forget slick willie pardoned suzzane rosenberg who was responsible for the brinks car murders.Im sure she is enjoying her life on the uws of manhatten woith her comrades
@@goodgrief888with parents like that? Who the hell needs enemies? Jesus christ! No wonder SF is fucked, I mean that's worse than when I looked back at how much influence Jim Jones had over the left and how Harvey Milk and all the other old democrat heads started off being assistants and coffee gofers for these people.
This is hands down my favorite channel. Love these deep dives so much. I've read tons of books on political history, especially on the left, and even I learn a bunch of new stuff on every video. I clearly don't know as much as I thought, which is super exciting to know. There's always more to learn! Thank you so much for the content
Japan also had a New Left movement that was at it's peak during the 1960s to the 1970s. It was much more notorious than the American Left at the time, using methods of terrorism, which caused public distrust, and also eventually caused the movement to decline.
Interesting I have to wonder what influence Mao might have been pushing into that, not to mention the USSR since they were active in the US and Asian countries around that time.
I was born in 1954 and graduated from UC Berkeley in 1979. As a precocious young man, I watched it all. It wasn't the loudest voices that dominated, nor any one idea that was spoken. Two things led: 1. people addictively enthralled by their own personal ability to interconnect and verbalize ideas--and thus keep themselves feeling powerful. 2. emotion expressed as powerful judgmentalism; which turned groups into aggressive mobs (even a group as small as 2 people). I saw people standing side by side, of equal intelligence, choosing different paths: the critical thinking development of an organized science degree OR the mind-stalling act of attaching oneself like leeches to specific ideas. Even still, instead of judging the past I observe the outcomes. Medical & technological advancements are obvious, but when the military hawks tried to convince President Johnson to use 'limited nuclear warfare' in Vietnam, he said that the hippy-peace counterculture may be right, so he didn't start a nuclear war. However it may come about, let's hope today's generations can stop mankind from further exasperating the climate change dilemma.
As an individual who live through and participated in the period you describe I affirm you have accomplished an accurate yet gentle appraisal of those days. Thank you for an excellent job.
Phenomenal research. You clarified a lot on this time period and made it all easy to follow and understand. A lot of things I did not learn in history. Great work. Subscribed and looking forward to watching your other videos.
To answer your question why this isn’t taught correctly? It is, just not in High school, and involves deeper political science and/or law studies in college to find. Despite that, I still really enjoyed your video! Very informative!
imo, it's at least partially because of how dominated by conservatives school boards are. We avoid teaching about Marx and Marxism at all costs, like he's fucking Voldemort. Conservatives are so extreme in their hatred of Marxism that they can't be bothered to even attempt an honest critique.
@@Individual_Lives_Matter All they teach us is communism bad, none of the actual beliefs or ways their governments are organized, last thing we need is more garbage red scare propaganda
Ryan Chapman is one of the very rare people on UA-cam who has a stab at giving a fair representation of different political positions. Colossal effort putting that lot together. Well beyond me, but I benefit from.
There are plenty who give it a stab, with varying degrees of success. This one is the best on that score for sure. I guess he's a Liberal due to the telltale personality traits, but wouldn't put money on it.
you will notice how only right wingers will see this as fair representation and everyone else will just see it as nonesense designed to be entertaining to a youtube crowd.
Dude, you are fantastic! I'm sad to say that I am finally learning so much about events that are so important to the current reality. Also, love the complete disclosure of literature and clear use of context. I've already added several books to my library. Your ability to present in-depth information in a manner that seems to be a genuine strive for people to think for themselves is a gift (one that I'm sure you've worked insanely hard to cultivate). This type of content is so helpful! Thank you.
So well done. I have been delving into this time period within the last few weeks. As well as the breakdown of how classical liberalism evolved into modern liberalism, keynesian and the rise of neoliberalism to make sense of what is happening today in both the economic and cultural spheres of our society. Can't wait to see more from you. Keep it up!
What's neoliberalism??? I'm telling you this because this is a common term used by most of the left (but especcially the marxists left) to reffer to: 1) Classic Liberalism (this includes obviously Locke, Hobes, Hume but more precissely Smith and Ricardo; which we can't forget were pretty influential to Marx, even the fact he hated free market); 2) both the Austrian and Chicago School Economics whose politics were implemented (till a certain point) on military dictatorships in Latin-America (which were clearly not Fascist regimes, even the fact were anticommunist and pretty autoritarian) by the USA and the UK goverment; 3) Moderns Liberals and Socialdemocrats (which many marxists-leninists and classic liberals, tend to hate because they've unfortunely absorb some of the identity politics); or 4) Maybe just simply Capitalism. The same question can be used for Cultural Marxism??? Which term is employed on this video by the owner of this channel who forgot to mention that it was a term used by Fascists (more especifacally by Nationalsocialists) and now is been used by modern populist conservatives... I'm not saying he's one of them but we need be more critique with ourselves and called the movements by its name and not the name we want to call it because that's kind of dishonest.
@@pavelm.gonzalez8608 Terms get thrown around way to often yes. Neo-Liberalism only makes sense if it is the Austrian and Chicago schools of economic, and the policies they have helped create. The new wave of liberalization that happened from the 80’s and 90’s forward. Frankly I don’t hear the term being used as much anymore. Globalization and austerity being the new “words” used by the left.
@@pavelm.gonzalez8608 The second Perón regime was certainly fascist in its philosophy. And the later Galtieri regime was fascist in practice. Indeed, the entire political make-up of the southern cone states was fascist, co-opting populism (Perón 1) and supporting military dictatorships (Brasil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay). The people of the region still struggle with the aftermath of Kissinger's realpolitik.
@@HappyCatholicDane The main reason is that most people do not know enough to separate economic liberalism (let industry be self-regulating) from social liberalism. This is why the Liberal Party (business), the Venstre and Conservativ (farmers) in Denmark are among the most conservative/reactionary groups in the country, which is dominated by the centrist Social Democrats (& just to their right, the Radikaler) with only the Socialist People's Party (SF) and Enhedslisten representing the left. The Danske Folkeparti (& earlier the rather foolish anti-tax party, whose name I have forgotten) were both so extreme in their fear of outsiders that they discredit themselves with most Danes. mvh
@@davidyohalem629 Venstre (left), is the liberal party in Denmark, as well as the traditional farmers party. They were opposed by Højre (right), which is now the Conservative party. Both are center right parties, and generally more business oriented than reactionary. Further to the right you have other parties, that are either reactionary or extremely liberal (think libertarian). At the center of Danish politics, you have Radikale Venstre (ironically mean radical left), which is a social liberal party that was traditionally associated with small farmers and academics. Also we have a new dedicated centrist party run by a former prime minister. There is also a Christian Democratic Party, but they are struggling to get in. Then you have the social democrats. Which are center left. Further on the left you have alternativet. Which is a weird party based on environmental policies and social justice issues. Also you have Socialistisk Folkeparty, and the more extreme Enhedslisten.
Thanks Ryan I shall listen to again since I am sleepy and your presentation is honest and meaty. I appreciate all of work and videos. Johnny of Boston.
I love your channel! I will definitely donate when I can :) Your approach is one of most unpartisan and educational I’ve come across. I’ve learned many things about different movements and ideologies, and also find myself going back to older videos to watch them again. Thank you for making such interesting and thought provoking content!
That has nothing to do with this. This is a case of ideas coming back and evolving. Without what happened in the 60s, we wouldn't be where we are now. History often doesn't repeat or rhyme in the matter of intellectualism, it's usually a case of ideas being based on other ideas.
@@brunoactis1104"It's usually a case of ideas being based on other ideas." The end of segregation was a good thing, now the Left is pushing back towards it for some reason trying to atomize the individual.
I like how you delivered this video. Lil more pep in your voice and not so much grim. I love your stuff just started watching yesterday!! Amazing info. Goat channel
This was actually great Ryan. I actually have a fairly basic hypothesis for why this isn’t as heavily covered in school is that when American history is covered in High school over a single year that the class typically ends around the 1960s anyways and school administrators and such probably only want to cover the more positive aspects like the civil rights movement, feminism and maybe some stuff about the Vietnam war or watergate. Not to mention parents who grew up from the 60s probably are still a little traumatized from this era. But that’s probably fading away as anyone alive then are probably becoming grandparents. Personally when I was in High school we got stuck for a month on labor movements around the turn of the century for the big annual project and in College which was half a semester we did the 60s but not in depth and more focused on things like local rioting and general civil unrest.
@@RobespierreThePoofwhenever anyone has to “prioritize” or ”edit,” usually due to time or space constraints, the question is, WHAT do you prioritize and what do you decide is less important? I’m not disagreeing with what you said. I am saying that different perspectives at different times, and different individuals doing the prioritizing, will choose to leave different things on the “editing floor.” What qualifies as basic historical education will be based on a number of factors, including your sociopolitical position and philosophy, and who you think qualifies as “us” and who as “them.” Two questions: What year did you take AP American History? And did you learn about “black Wall Street” and its literal destruction?
I have a sociology degree, but I'm hearing some of the issues, and ideas for the first time from your channel. I know how difficult this kind of research can be, so I appreciate your lectures very much. Keep them coming!
After watching this I'm all caught up on your full body of work, looks like I left the best till last, hope to see more deep dives in future. Well done my dude, Patreon in-bound.
The new left also developed ideas from the young Marx that were more philosophical and humanist. The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts were translated from the German in the 60s and had a big impact on new left ideology. I was a student at UCLA in the late sixties and the sociology depts were very radical and influenced the young Marx's writings.
I studyed socology in the UK in the 1980s and Marx was one of the view points you had to learn amongst others. I was also doing some psychology. My teacher asked if i knew why some sociology students would become Marx fanatics after the lessions. Could not explain then but could now.
@BeachandHills-hb2pq I think by the time Einstein comes along everyone understands marx thst much better, and thus his work becomes that much more dangerous for it's truths, it becomes the devil by proxy.
@@DJWESG1 I would say Marx spent his life trying to creat revolutions in countrys around Euroup. He became a good sociologist trying to understand why he failed. He is half correct. If you follow his ideas you will get the rivers of blood he talked about, He used the French revolution and the terror as some thing to copy. He is a Devil he taught you should create terror in the poulation to push your revolution forward. THe proletariat can see what Marxists do and the methods they use. The words of revolution do not work on them. The reason the Europians reject Marxism for 150 years.
Hey Kevin, I actually planned on doing that right after the 'evolution of liberalism' video, but the response to the liberalism video was lukewarm and the research process was long and tiring, so I put it on the back burner. I plan on circling back to it (and finishing with a progressivism video), but can't promise anything.
I would really like to see that video. I grew up evangelical and in the military (army brat), so politics and religion always went hand in hand. As an adult, I don’t associate myself with evangelicalism and I claim no political affiliation, so being removed from that frame of reference makes me really curious about that specific development.
@@realryanchapman Thank you for your research. After watching this i was very curious to learn about the evolution of conversatism because of much the lines have been blurred in recent years and people who previously identified as liberals now are considered or consider themselves conservative for not having adopted postmodern philosophies
@@realryanchapman I thought your video on American Liberalism was quite good, except that you're allowing what Americans call "conservatives" to refer to themselves as "classical liberals", which they do, it seems to me, to intentionally muddy the waters (because they want to obscure their support of neoliberalism, a topic I've studied extensively). In the US liberals = Democrats, Republicans = conservative. They don't tie back to European concepts in any meaningful way. It confused me greatly when I first started to study this.
U watched twice I downloaded it to my sd card and only use a device that I never use on line its never been online.its a Virgin ans going to stay that way degoogle your children's phones and check out to make sure that they haven't had it googled. SAVE THE CHILDREN.
I was 17 years old in 1968. I was in high school. I lived in the San Fernando Valley, in California. I remember students protesting the Vietnam war. I was dating at the time and my boyfriend was drafted. When I entered the 12th grade, students from Northridge University were protesting. I did not understand exactly what they were protesting about at the time, but then I remembered it was noon and these outsiders came on campus and were screaming down the halls. The administration came over the intercom and told us to lock our doors. My teacher was 5 months pregnant. She was terrified, and so was everyone in the class room. That experience left me with such a disgusting feeling towards protesting was all about. To this day I hate students who protests. Students have been indoctrinated ever since. After High School I took a trade and went to work. Some of my friends went to the University. I married my sweet heart at age 20. This was in the Carter years. Gas shortage and a lot of chaos. I went to community College when I was 26 years old. I took 2 classes per semester. It took me about about 8 years to get my associates degree in child development. I was able to see how the school culture was being influenced by liberal professors. A few of my friends who went to University became very aware of racism. They developed a oppressed attitude. I was working in the Real WORLD, so I didn’t experience racism. Fast Forward today I told my niece to go to CSUN. She took a Woman’s Study Course in her first year and preceded to tell me she was oppressed as a woman. The indoctrination had begun. I explained to her it was 2020 and that she was not oppressed. I am so sick of oppressed and oppressor. It is so easy to Brain Wash a nineteen year old. Even early 20’s
God bless you ma'am. The educational system in this country has been hijacked since the 1960s. I like how you said people that weren't supposed to be on campus were coming onto campus that didn't belong there. Same thing happening again right now all across the country. You asked these young inexperienced in life people why exactly they are protesting, and can't give you a good solid reason. Like you, I'm sick of the oppressed and oppressor garbage! Again thank you and God bless you!
As a person who lived through those days it is refreshing to hear a clear and concise explanation of many of the events going on in the 1960s. It is, as you know an impossible task to understand or explain all that was going on at the time. I think you have done a fantastic job of getting to the core of much of it. People today, have little understanding of how strong an influence this was. Remember of course, this is long before the internet. Had the internet existed at the time, this story and history would probably be a very different one. Thank you again for your excellent presentation.
Thank you for this huge effort. I’m 68 yrs old. And always confused about this. Would love to hear you critique how it’s led to the left situation today
I was child during the 60s and what I know of that time is what I remember from watching the nightly news each day on a black and white TV. This video was an interesting overview that evoked many memories but with information and perspective. Thanks.
Bell's End of Ideology is a very good book, even when wrongheaded. He was a forerunner of neocons. The basic idea was revisited in Fukuyama's End of History and the Last Man, although he was lamenting the end of that history. Most people don't see that. Btw, those of us who grew up in the 60s have not forgotten the New Left. I always say, the 60s inoculated me from being on the left while the 90s cured me from being on the right.
@@uku4171 I'm a moderate. I pretty much despise all ideology and fanatical followers of ideology, whether left or right. I can't identify with either Republicans or Democrats.
This is not a criticism ... but one thing that might be difficult to capture ... is how tumultuous the era was in general. Corruption and injustice permeated a lot of society and there were SO MANY CHANGES happening at once ... that everyone, in every walk of life, felt dizzy from it all (well, except for the people poised to profit and gain power). In 1910, there were only 10 miles of paved roads in America. On 7% of Americans had enough education to graduate from high school. Everyone grew their own food, etc. Most homes didn't have running water or electricity until the 1920s-50s. An ice truck would deliver a big block of ice to keep your food cold. Then, after WWII, seemingly overnight, we invent the suburbs, television (and frozen TV dinners and pre-made cereal), the nuclear family, and teen culture (sock hops, cars, records, fast food). We were being sold every kind of gadget and gizmo (consumerism was rampant and we were buying American Culture - even though it didn't exist a decade earlier). But there were also murmurings of things like Operation Ajax - where the CIA ousted democratically elected leaders in foreign lands and replaced them with someone who would allow our companies to exploit the resources, profits, and people of their countries - such as when the CIA led a coup against Jacob Arbenz in Guatemala giving United Fruit Company the ability to grow bananas, or, when they installed the Shah of Iran so we could have access to oil. Nuclear power was sold as "too cheap to meter" (which was only true if you overlooked the need for safety standards and disposal of waste materials that would be radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years). Once you added the draft - where you could plucked out of your life and be sent TO KILL PEOPLE, Emmett Till, buses set on fire ... it all got to be a bit much. But EVEN THEN, for all the chaos, and even though the New Left existed on the spectrum, most people were simply not interested and they didn't have that much influence. In a world with so many new ideas and things happening - it wasn't completely surprising that there would be some people who would take things too far. No one knew what was needed or what would work. Time and time again, the New Left fell apart because their ideas didn't work, or they were rejected by the people who were working towards real reform within the framework of our Constitution and with a commitment to "liberty and justice for all."
Context, context, context, Mr. Chapman! The 1960's left/liberation movements cannot be understood without discussing the facts to which those movements were responding. For instance, students weren't just youngsters reading Marx and 'getting radical.' We were embedded in a government/cultural system in which the following was occurring: - the U.S. military was in the process of slaughtering 3 MILLION people in Southeast Asia, with almost 60,000 U.S. soldiers killed and many more injured; - all young men in the USA were subject to the DRAFT at that time and could, at any moment, have their lives ended or ruined by being conscripted to this "military-industrial complex" boondoggle/slaughterhouse on the other side of the world; - the world context of U.S. terrorism was becoming known: the U.S. overthrowing elected governments in Guatemala, Iran, Chile, Indonesia and elsewhere, with horrible consequences; - the CIA takeover of the National Student Association had been revealed (early '60s) and the CIA's malevolent, covert activities throughout the world and within our own country were coming to light; - three peace-oriented US leaders were assassinated within the space of 5 years (1963-1968): JFK, MLK, RFK; - 3 civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi in 1964; many black Americans were being beaten, lynched, viciously segregated and denied the right to vote; - the Soviet Union was liberalizing itself, rejecting Stalinism and seeking peaceful co-existence with the US (Nikita Krushchev era - Krushchev wept when JFK was murdered; they had a peace pact); - the vicious McCarthy 'anti-communism' internal witch-hunt had only just ended (the 1950s) but there were still plenty of vicious anti-communists around (& in power) in addition to assorted bigots of all kinds and social structures of serious and often violent oppression - overt against blacks and against gays and systemic against women (for instance, all their work - housekeeping, cooking, raising children - was unpaid, and violence against them was ignored, even expected as 'normal'). And this ain't the half of it, Mr. Chapman. I lived it. I was a freshmen in college when JFK was assassinated. My first vote for president was for LBJ who promised peace (ha-ha on me!). I was there at the Century City anti-war protest in L.A. in 1967 and witnessed and ran from the police riot. I had traveled to Georgia and Alabama in 1965 to volunteer for MLK's voter registration drive and was myself under threat many times. Listening to your take on original documents of the left/liberation movements of the 1960s struck me as lifeless, soul-less and clueless. It's kind of like reading the Bible as if it were history. There is a difference between people writing things and people doing things or responding to things being done. Call it manifestos vs reality. A much better approach to the tumult of the 1960s would be: Why did we (my generation) fail? With all that aspiration to a peaceful world and social justice, how did our country end up as it is now? One clue: In "The Project for a New American Century" - the Neo-Cons' bible - the manifesto of the people currently running the USA - the authors lay out how many countries they are going to invade, to achieve full spectrum dominance of the world, but they opine that, first, they need to overcome "the Vietnam Syndrome" (Americans' hatred of war). They wistfully say that it will take a "new Pearl Harbor" to re-militarize the USA. (This was a pre-9/11 document.) (Um...they got their wish.) WHAT. WENT. WRONG?
I'd suggest that there was a lack of serious policy within the New Left and an overemphasis on identity division. It's easy to call for the overthrow of capitalism, but what's your economic policy? These problems persist within the modern left, and for that matter, the modern right. Conservatives more easily fall in line, though, which is why they're capable of organising around nonsense. In order to win, the left needs policy visions and power concentrations that can bind people. Most people are rightly repelled by the emphasis on special interests.
1. Unpaid work??? How about a home, a family, etc. Does payment need to be a cheque, an envelope of cash? 2. Some history is included in the bible and it can and is read for its historical record. Archaeology and other documents corroborate some of the bible. You sound a bit extreme.
Not many want to read a “comment “ that looks like a book - just saying snapperhead !! More concise , more simple less hot air !! Hot it mr war and peace ?
Remember that all the people represented here were a very small minority of all the kids their age. Even the total membership of the Students for a Democratic Society at its peak were less than the number of people who attend Coachella now in a single day. And the kids who didn't do this stuff, either because they didn't go to college or because they did not approve of it, often _hate_ these people. These were their peers that they didn't get along with. My dad straight up calls anybody involved with any of these movements "evil" - and I don't think his opinion of that has changed since the 1960s. It's probably not a coincidence that these radical student movements were focused on people who went to college and the modern conservative reactionary backlash is focused on the peers of those people who didn't go to college.
I graduated high school 1969. The Viet Nam War was raging, there was a draft and every 18 year old male had to register at their high school or be charged with a federal felony. Civil rights were being struggled for. Massive change was going on in every sphere. It was a different era and the New Left offered solutions that the two American political parties could not offer. Under those conditions it was only normal and healthy for idealistic young people too seek new political movements.
Ryan, MLK wasn't a liberal. His bestie was Norman Thomas and his Poor People's Campaign was about socialism. Search "The Bravest Man I Ever Met" which he wrote.
This video is an academic triumph. I have never heard this level of clarity brought to the formation of our modern political landscape. I feel more at peace now that I understand the underpinnings of these ideas.
It’s difficult for the young to do engaging history. I think there were a few instances of cherry-picking: and I’m also appreciative of Ryan’s efforts to modulate, self-correct, and take intellectual risks. Historical context could receive greater emphasis, albeit at the expense of the bigger bang… quite the balancing act. I’ll continue to watch, support, and share.
Radical Son by David Horowitz is a great read and a dive into the issues this video addresses, including the author’s brush with the Black Panthers etc.
Contrary to your statement near the end of this excellent presentation, Indeed the Weather Underground did, in 1970, set off an explosion in a Greenwich Village townhouse which killed 3 of its own members. This led to Mark Rudd going underground himself to escape arrest.
As a man who loves history, I can safely say that subscribing to this channel is worth it. By the way, since you do a lot of reading on history and politics with a focus on America, have you read the Oxford Edition History of the United States of America, and if you have, what did you think of each entry from "The Glorious Cause" to "From Colony to Super Power: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776"?
I recommend your videos ALL THE TIME .... fact is, there's just not enough of this type of unbiased political educational content. Thank you, Ryan. It is a true service to simply speak the truth. Non biased Education about the roots of the modern cultural ideological clusterfk we all have to navigate is worth more than gold in the information age.
Its good to recognize people as individuals, and its especially important to do so when interacting with some particular individual. But we can't just pretend that groups don't exist. Peoples affiliation - say, with a political party or a gender or a profession - have an impact on their decision making process. These affiliations might be important for different reasons - say, personal values or material conditions or social constructs - but any framework that is willfully blind to the existence of groups does not contain a complete description of the world and is insufficient to tackle the challenges of our day.
You did an articulate job of delineating a very difficult era in history. Thank you for your objective reporting connecting sixties dots to 2010's-20's landscape.
Absolutely love this channel. For the extraordinary, baffling moments of the present, yours is perhaps the most important channel on UA-cam at the moment.
All of your analysis on many topics is rich in nuance, thank you for and keep up the good work. Your ability to strongman both sides of the argument are stunning and needed in this day and age
Ryan, I was motivated to comment by your last defense of your work from critics that talk about the New Left differently. I was there, I was a member of SDS, briefly. I was mostly a "draft counselor" helping kids know their risks and options, including emigrating to Canada. We trained on "resistance" which was opening refusing induction. I left the movement in 1969 but followed, and agreed, with most of it. Many friends worshiped Marcuse and we all saw ourselves as socialists. I agree with you that most SDS members and sympathizers really were reformists, not revolutionaries. Even when we talked about revolution, it was often a metaphor for great change achieved through reforms. For example, MLK was everyone's hero, not Carmichael or Rap Brown. The Black Panthers has a thuggish overtone form the beginning. Anyway, I have gone on too long. I just wanted you to know that I was awake, read the newspaper every day and was paying attention and I think you got it just right.
I appreciate your unbiased account, and especially your focus on how dishonest players sometimes tried to weaponize legitimate discontent and emotional messaging to cynically gain power for themselves, unrelated to their stated goals. It was America losing its innocence. I dream we can get it back, in the sense of honest brokerage.
I might agree with you but considering history of the genocide of native Americans, couldn't this innocence be false and destructive. Then again I am very against cynicism these days. And the lack of optimism and empathy dangerous.
Thank you thank you thank you! I was a well-educated 'revolutionary' for Good (!) who acquired an anoxic brain injury--'death', 6 month coma etc etc --and I dearly needed a thorough 'refresher course'--I am so happy I don't have to re-do my research & ample reading. Mercy buckets
Another fantastic piece. Always appreciate how careful you are to lampshade any potential issues (like you did pointing out the possible "cherry-picking" not once but twice). I found this video because I'm a patreon supporter (actually I made an account just to support these vids :) ), though it makes me very sad to see that UA-cam is soft-censoring your work. Keep at it! We need more videos like this one in the world today!
I just noticed that in between the two paragraphs you quoted about the occasion where a feminist house representative’s microphone was taken away, it explained that Miss Miller, the next speaker, had negative experiences with men in the Black Panther movement treating women as oppressively as the society they were critiquing had done. I think this goes a long way towards explaining why she would have such a negative opinion of men. Of course it sounds absurd to us today to hear someone say they’re categorically not going to work with men anymore, but when you look at what she had to deal with in the political movements of her time, it makes a lot more sense why she would say that. If a woman today said the same thing, but her experience was largely with men who already support gender equality, then that would sound as extreme as your video made Miller’s view sound. That said, this video was extremely enlightening for me. Thank you.
The tactics used by the SDS on the Berkeley campus are classic tactics promoted by the Soviets (and since 2000, the CCP) in which they would train students in whichever country they wished to infiltrate. Such tactics indicate the probable presence of Russian "advisors" within the SDS. As always, communism exploits grievances and where they are lacking, manufactures them. They call this technique "preparing the way" and it is used to agitate and has successfully fomented revolutions around the globe. Historically, there are ZERO truly organic communist revolutions,, as all have been heavily subjected to this churning and harvesting agitation process during which it is alleged that democratic values have been betrayed by an oppressive elite. Palestine is a perfect example of this. By inventing tales of massacres and launching jihads and intifadas, and then by rejecting all good-faith liberal offers of appeasement, then crying wolf repeatedly, Israel has been forced to take more and more draconian measures to contain the threat they pose, and Palestinians can then claim they are living in an oppressive state.
The irony about the “cultural Marxist” movement of the New Left is that it became so obsessed with “expanding” Marxism into cultural aspects of society rather than class that it gradually became less rotted in Marxist teachings, as if it gradually gave up on Marx’s theories of historical materialism and class struggle in favor of postmodernism, identity politics, and Critical Race Theory. In other words, what we’ve seen is a gradual decline of interest in actual Marxism among the Left, leading towards what it has now become a postmodernist movement that champions victimhood, performative activism, cult mentality, pessimism, identity politics, and radical skepticism to the detriment of the working class. It is no wonder, then, that corporations, wealthy elites, and left-leaning politicians find it more attractive and beneficial to their agenda than actual Marxism, which was, first and foremost, focused on the liberation of the working class. Then again, it is understandable that because of Marxism’s totalitarian, collectivist, left-wing socialist tendencies, which it shares with the otherwise opposing right-winged socialist ideology of Fascism, people had become disillusioned with it and gradually turned to the Frankfurt School, then Postmodernism, and then finally Social Justice Theories such as CRT, gender studies, and whiteness studies. What we have seen over the years since the fall of the Soviet Union is a decline of influence of Marxism, followed by the rise of woke capitalism, turning the former supporters of Marxism such as Angela Davis into the very bourgeoisie that Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin staunchly opposed.
The process is easy to understand. Marxism itself is a 19th century economic justification for sedition and terrorism that never made much sense, and is even more nonsensical today. It's an economic sum of the prophets with a mathematical basis that never rises above simple algebra, but that is an advantage if you are a relatively ignorant college student. The important characteristic of Marxism is that pseudo-intellectual justification for crime, which proved to be quite lucrative throughout the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. Capitalism is simply an explanation for how modern money-based economics operates. Capitalism itself is ethics neutral, and whether or not exploitation occurs depends on the specific form that economic behavior takes under a specific form of capitalism. The argument that "capitalism" is "exploitative" makes as much sense as to argue that gravity is murderous, thus it should be abolished. Sometimes Marxists will disavow past Marxist governments of not being "Marxist" or "socialist" but rather being "state capitalist," but this accusation is true for all Marxist governments. Capital does not magically transform into something else once socialists steal it all for themselves, and the exclusionary, totalitarian regime that inevitably (and intentionally) results takes the character of a form of Left fascism. Becoming part of the small, often hereditary socialist elite that results has become the primary goal of Marxist struggle among socialist activists. Socialism thus has not just evolved into a secular religion. It has become a business, indeed a hustle, and in modern capitalist societies has become the most popular career choice for the children of the upper classes, particularly among those who attend Ivy-League schools. It has become especially popular among black racists and race hustlers. It is the ideological basis of the blatant racism and national socialism of Critical Race Theory, and is how the founders of Black Lives Matter were able to accumulate their millions so quickly. Being fluent in the jargon and intellectual nonsense of this ideology has become a passport to jobs in federal and state bureaucracies in the West and the considerable incomes, benefits and political power that such positions offer. It has become absolutely necessary in the fields of public school teaching and corporate journalism. This gateway to the lucrative exploitation of the working classes is why children of the privileged classes find socialist and Marxist systems of thought so appealing, much for the same reasons that Lenin foresaw.
Well said. I'm surprised to learn this "new left" thing is news to people. This was my understanding of the left coming out of high school. My teachers never spelled it out for me, it all just clicked naturally. You had marxism, then you had socialism and communism, and finally after that came social justice. Each one tried to improve on the other, but ultimately they all failed. All of that was totally separate from Liberalism. I never was under the impression that Social Justice or hippies or any of the Left Wing movements of the 20th century were driven by Liberalism. Liberals were around, and participated. But they were only ever complicit with Marxism. Not necessarily marxist themselves. The way Liberals refused to stand up against the radical elements inside thier own circles never sat well with me. And is a major part of what pushed me out of the left later in life. I specifically remember China as a major issue for me. I was pissed about how much we colluded with the CCP at an economic and political level, even as a child I found it to be insane: treasonous I'd call it, before I knew the strict definition of Treason. When I graduated high school in 2013, socialism was a joke. Social Justice was around, but it wasn't a term we used to describe it. It was just nimby procelitizing. We didn't associate it with a larger movment at the time. Maybe it was because we were just stupid teenagers and couldn't see what was sitting in plain sight. All that has transpired since then has been eye opening for me. When the SJWs went full retard, and the term started to make headlines as a pajoritive for radical leftwingers, I started looking into the topic a bit more. The Marxist underpinnings were obvious to me. The obsession with collectives was a dead givaway. But the conservatives were ringing fire alarms like mad. I came from a working class family of Union Democrats from Massachusetts. We didn't suffer the kind of crazy people associate with the left today. Proggs were only a thing in Boston. And even then, they were just a passing spectacle. You might see a crowd of a few dozen candy colored wigs with a megaphone on a campus. But out in the real world, SJWs weren't a thing. But slowly, over the years, they started to actually gain power and influence... Somehow. Starting with social programs like education, HR, and politics. But from there thier influence started to encroach into people's day to day life. Suddenly you had to be careful what kinds of jokes you made at work, and soon after that in public. It just kept getting worse till 2016. I was fed up with the whole thing. Trump came along, and made a circus of the whole world. It was the funniest shit me or my friends ever saw. I voted for him as a protest. I figured my vote was worthless, I'll vote for the Spraytanned orangitang. When he WON I nearly had a brain hemorage from laughing. Ever since I've been on the conservative side of the wall. And yea, from over here, its really obvious. Stepping out of the left made examining the left alot easier. Today, I describe myself to strangers as a Libertarian, I'm more comfortable as a deplorable than I was as a Liberal. I still hold the same beliefs, but I analyse politics from a more conservative lens now. I can spot a pinko from 500 yrds. Can't actually shoot for shit, but I got my brain calibrated at least. This video is old news for me.
@@TheWhitehiker Clearly, you haven’t read Karl Marx or anything written by Engels and Lenin. Only a Trump supporter would delude himself that the New Left is still “Marxist” when it has become more about identity politics, narcissism, and making money than anything else. Wokeness is a scam. It’s bad enough we had to spend four years under a conman like Trump.
I wish we still lived in a society where these were topics of mainstream news coverage and conversation instead of shallow socialites and lying politicians. When public intellectuals were heard instead of silenced.
Yea the more i watch of you, the more i appreciate your existance on this app. Sir, you have my upmost respect. As an independent constitutionalist, with moderate right leaning fiscal views and left leaning social views... i cant begin to thank you enough for doing the good work.
*Arrow points in gap just after 1940* "And you think not much happened here" Right, right, just a little thing called World War 2, ain't nothing but a thang. But seriously, this seems like a really well done video. I think there's a lot of interesting parallels with the new left of the 60's, and the various socialist groups of our current day. A lot of the same critiques and failings are still present between these two movements, despite being separated by multiple decades.
Ryan, I appreciate that you are educating yourself, and doing your own research, which is GREAT. But you are missing out if you think you don't need to research further back than the 60s. We're still going through everything that was present with the Wilson administration, and the French Revolution is still HUGE in the world. The French Revolution is where the terms left and right were were born, and they have been misunderstood ever since ... and that's on purpose. The French Revolution is a period of revolution, the Reign of Terror, and empire. This same pattern is followed repeatedly, in the Russian Revolution, WW2 era Germany, Mao's revolution, and even in Castro's revolution. Modern liberals subscribe to Bentham's philosophy, and he was from the French Revolution era. Marx's philosophies were based on the French Revolution philosophies. All of this led to Progressivism, which was the key philosophy of the Wilson administration. Progressivism is the left and it is the revolution. The "right wing" is simply whoever is not sufficiently on board with the revolution. ("If you're not with us, you're against us.")
A lot of French Revolutionary ideas were preceded by radical groups in the English Civil War, like the Levelers and the Diggers, among others. And I'm sure their ideas didn't arise in a vacuum, either. You can take a lot of current political rifts all the way back to at least the Agricultural Revolution. That was maybe the most radical shift ever in human society, causing a clash of values between new hierarchical structures eventually involving wealthy land-owners and the previous relatively egalitarian small groups of nomadic hunter-gatherers.
@@michaelcriger6359 Of course everything tends to have an antecedent. But that doesn't mean it makes sense to take everything back to the big bang. It's perfectly fine to study the English Civil War. The English Civil War had a far greater effect on the American Revolution than it did on the French Revolution. The French Revolution is the problematic one, with echoes in all the Marxist revolutions. The concept of LEFT and RIGHT, used to divide people today, comes from the French Revolution, and Progressive ideology - with its use of phony science for political gain - is part of the Age of Enlightenment. If you want to understand what's going on today, the French Revolution is the pivotal moment to look at. The French Revolution promised a utopia and delivered a dystopia. That is a key characteristic. Go ahead and disagree if you want. I'm not going to try to convince you of anything.
@@michaelcriger6359 That's the frustrating thing when it comes to analyzing culture. Any movement in a society is caused by the people who live there, and they are influenced by how they reacted to the previous generations and movements, who are in turn reacting to the previous generation's, and they to the previous, and so on and so on. You will just keep looking back further and further for more and more context, and so at some point you need to just decide to stop. As a video (probably) meant to inform the general masses about these movements, how they differed from the other liberal movements of the time, and introduce people who likely are entirely unaware of their existence, I think Ryan did an excellent job at giving enough context to understand the movements and why they were the way they were. If the video was intended for audiences already familiar, and for them go even deeper, then going back another generation to the French revolution would work, but it would be information overload for the average layperson.
I'm laughing at this thread. I was thinking the same thing after the first comment that you need to go back to the French Revolution. I though, sure, but you can keep going back to the hunter gatherers...very next comment! 😆
I had misgivings when I started watching this. This was my first exposure to your work, and I was steeling myself to not get upset at what I feared would be a romanticized version of that time. I quickly realized that you were not doing that, and I thank you for it. I was born in 1953, and was a avid follower of events in the news during the 1960s. In the late 1970s a member of the Progressive Labor Party, which had absorbed one of the SDS factions, tried to recruit me. I was curious about how anyone could believe that this little faction would be able to pull off a revolution. I still have a copy of Revolution Today: USA which she gave me. I recall she was very dismissive of feminism and gay liberation. When she tried to close the sale, I told her I just couldn't make the 'leap of faith' required to believe that a popular revolution would bring communism to the United States. My use of a religious term really, really pissed her off.
Good stuff. I have been struggling through the “student” takeover of politics. Tom Hayden who was before my time but seemed a sort of hazy hero of my early teens, wrote: “my intellectual hero is C. Wright Mills, a Marxist who broke with what he condemned as the stale “labor metaphysic” of the communist and socialist parties, embracing instead an international New Left led by middle class students around the world. Mills was fresh, honest and always searching.” You reference Mills early I think. I listened over two days. It makes me laugh because I cannot imagine a more corruptible or stale metaphysic than a movement prioritizing and elitizing an already elitist bunch of the understandably confused early mid twenties mostly white make students. That Western Culture has decided that education is a grail, a universal one, and not an indoctrination allowing some of the chaps in your clips to imagine their rhetoric reveals mostly egotism is, well, a cross we must bear I suppose. I hear and read the same stuff all over social media. Hot times. But stale labor metaphysic is a scary announcement of elitism that probably has souled whatever might have been good and genuine about those years in those movements. It is as inattentive as religion, and a culture we can never shake. The Hayden article is in the Nation, “I Used to Support Bernie but then I changed my mind.”
Very informative and digestible. I was shocked recently when I saw some old 60's speeches that sounded as if they came from today, full of the exact same unhinged Marxist language. So I especially appreciated your pointing out that a large part of the big movements tried (unsuccessfully, it would seem) to distance themselves from the extreme radicals.
Yep, the same communist rhetoric and provocation tactics are in use today. They also started targeting the black community, and exploiting/ provoking racial conflict, a century ago.
The effect of European movements like the Italian Red Brigades and the German Red Army Faction on far left student radicals was also important. Perhaps only for the romanticized imagery of a globalized blow against the Empire. And don't forget the Symbionese liberation army.
All three of the groups you mention were minimal in size and effect, especially the SLA, but also Bader-Meinhoff. The overreaction to their terrorism was used to mobilize public opinion against the "leftist" agenda.
@@davidyohalem629 The modern versions of those things were. Delta Force and the SAS were reinvented as counter terrorism units during the Cold War. Specifically due to the number of airline hijackings that were occurring.
@@cas343 Neither the Red Brigades, nor the Baader-Meinhoff Gang was responsible or involved in any airline hijackings. The SLA was a very small group who were into robbing banks and not much else. Oh, and one high profile kidnapping.
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I thought I'd delete the generic comment I had here and return to this video in 2024 to address the one main criticism that people seem to have of it, which doesn't have to do with the content itself, but I suppose is worth addressing: my body language.
I'm not someone who enjoys public speaking. I've never in my life wanted to do it. Doing it on such sensitive issue - issues that are bound to upset a lot of people - is especially uncomfortable for me. I started making these videos, not because I wanted to be a public figure, but because I thought having this content be publicly and freely available was socially important and worth my time and efforts. I also thought putting a face behind the content (and not just narrate to visuals) was the right thing to do, so you could see the person making these claims and judge my character for yourself. What you see on screen is my grappling with all that. In practice that meant I had a hard time thinking while also looking into the camera, so for this video I looked off to the side to gather my thoughts if I had to think mid-sentence.
This is also one of the earlier videos, and my later ones are much more comfortable. I've even begun to enjoy speaking on camera on some level, though I'd still rather not.
I don't have much to add besides that. Hope you enjoyed the vid!
- Ryan
Some good advice for the improvement for the left - Reject the f3m1nism rampant in the left wing. You can't improve society when a hate movement holding the reins
@22:05 - ''So, the equal rights didn't pass. But it wasn't because of men. A conservative w man stop it'' - ''But that's another story''(you don't want to deal with this issue)
That's right. Men were never against equality. Conservative w men saw their PRIVILEGES under attack and took action
@@citycrusher9308 women can never be in favour of equality.
@@HairFetishTitans True. That would mean having their privileges reduced
@28:45 - ''This kind of extremism doesn't represent ''F" as a whole''
Wrong. It definitely DOES represent this hate movement accurately
These types of individual creator well researched long videos are exactly what we need in this time and age.
Well done Ryan.
I do them. Unfortunately it's hard to get people to watch them. People's attention span is like 5 minutes.
@@V-RADIO just subbed will check your material out
@@V-RADIO you do post consistently enough which the algorithm likes, but the titles and thumbnails of your videos are messy and confusing. Meaning the algorithm doesn't understand which audiences would want to see your content. They give off conspiracy theory vibes, not "I've done hours of research and have put together an analysis based on x theory with y number of first hand accounts". So the audience for this video wouldn't be interested in your stuff until you figure out how to appropriately market your channel.
Hope that helps
There's a consistent down playing of the negative aspects of the Right, and an often wtf overinflation of the negative side of the Left. Usually, despite the delivery, David either doesn't understand many of the aspects of the Left he covers, or he's purposely misinforming people. I hope it's the former.
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Understanding Yuri Bezmenov and the Four stages of Ideological subversion is a great accompaniment to this video.
As is an understanding of the Frankfurt School and critical theory in the post war years before the 60's. Literally the ideological forerunner of the deconstructionist worldview.
Gonna check him up. Thanks for the tip!
Thank you
This is an exceptional piece of original work. I was an SDS member, but among those who didn't realize what it was until 1968, when I began to understand where Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn were taking this group. Then powerful outside groups, like the Institute for Policy Studies, began to move in to take over grass-roots political groups. There still there now, working behind the political curtain to realize their nightmare, as they did with Antifa and Extinction Rebellion.
Your question as to why this period isn't studied or taught authentically deserves an answer. I think it's because the ghosts still haunt us as a nation, and powerful people don't want us to know their own connection with all of this.
Thanks again.
Dr. Darrell Whitman
It is a common trajectory for well meaning protest or alternative groups to be taken over by more radical players. Infiltrate and push out 'softies' and build yr powerbase. Quite often this leads to eventual self destruction ( like the Black Panthers, the German Red Brigade etc) unless they play the political long game of hiding their motives and require influence and money over time. We are talking Greenpeace and the overall Green Agenda, basically fascists in disguise.
The SDS represents the wonderful leftist progressive POV. Why would anyone who was in SDS disrespect Extinction Rebellion or even Antifa?
@@alfredroberthogan5426i too was a bit baffled by this comment of the former SDS member… especially regarding Antifascism….
I rarely feel compelled to comment on anything, but I’m so glad I stumbled across this channel a few days ago. Your content is so well-studied, educational, unbiased, and it has references! This is gold.
Extremely well done -- I grew up as a white boy in the civil rights movement in the South -- my mom & protestant minister dad moved to Memphis in 1961 to be part of the movement (they were aligned with MLK's SCLC - so clearly on the 'liberal' wing of the movement. So, I grew up listening to the liberal vs radical arguments.) - and I grew up on a college campus and saw the development of the student movement there -- and then in the 70s I dealt with coming out as gay ... so I lived through a lot of this.
THE key event to explain why the GLF's (founded 1969) Marxist approach didn't take hold, and why the SDS collapsed in 68/69, was leftists' reaction to the Soviet's brutal crackdown in Czechoslovakia in 1968 after the Prague Spring (which was seen by lots of Marxists and socialists in the US as an example of workable communism without the heavy-handed Soviet police state). It really did have the effect of making labeling yourself Marxist or communist much more difficult, especially in 1969.
Hi I’m 38 and grew up in South Carolina with Republican parents who valued what I’d call classical liberalism nowadays and thought that republicans were always the home of the civil rights movement. Not that either party really has an interest beyond their own, but what do you think about “the big switch”?
Yeah, that whole civil rights movement was and is a Marxist plot to overthrow God-fearing American values. It must be defeated at all costs. No one deserves rights.
@@flyingmonkey3822 I'm 38 and grew up in North Carolina with Republican Southern Baptist parents and always understood that "the big switch" was a real thing that happened, which was further engrained as I worked at a Civil War historic site in my late teens. Some former "Dixiecrats" were still serving while we were alive, I KNOW you're familiar with Strom T., he flipped parties in the 60s saying the D's no longer represented his "values". To me, when I was younger at least, Dems always represented corruption, cities, "sleeze", etc. But the Republican's were pro-war (Iraq)/military, low taxes, cutting funding to social programs, and most of all - the "Moral" Majority, Christians who wanted to dictate how everyone else got to live. That's what ultimately lost me and made me leave that party in my early 20s.
@@flyingmonkey3822 Total myth. Democrats just trying to project their racist roots onto others.
@@Aaronnail83 I graduated college in ‘06 and Bush was the keynote speaker! Later I found out what a neocon was and while bussing tables in Long Island country clubs on the weekends it never occurred to me that there were “rich republicans”, the rich and city dwellers were all democrats. It seems that the controlling interests behind the republicans changed to trying to influence the democrats around the time of Al Gore and the rise of big tech. But overall I wouldn’t say that racism defined why someone joined a party until the democrats began race baiting during Obama’s time. Trump was a lifelong democrat but gained the Republican nomination by claiming to offer a solution to Republican corruption. Bernie Sanders is an outright socialist and communist sympathizer who honeymooned in Moscow, but no one ever painted him kissing Putin bc they were able to steal his nomination which he won by claiming to be also an alternative to Democrat corruption. The binary is false, both parties have abandoned the center and the sneeches on the beaches have painted stars upon thars too many times to say definitively that one is good and the other bad. At this point I’m libertarian and hopeful that we can simply restrain the power each party has at all so that we can coexist somehow. I don’t want my kids embroiled in a civil war.
I was in SDS in Ann Arbor in the late sixties. I think your overview is fair. I would just like to add three points. First, while SDS was a national organization, each chapter on each campus determined its policy objectives without input from any national body. In Ann Arbor, we would have resisted any attempt at oversight. Second, most of the time was spent in endless meetings. Third, there was internal pressure to "pick up the gun". We were all raised in peaceful middle-class homes. There was always the sense that if things got too crazy we could just walk away ... which most of us did.
Some writer theorized that the disorganization of the New Left was due to the fact that there were no experienced Old Left leaders left after McCarthy. Someone brought two figures from each together for a discussion. The Old Left figure played a pompous, rigid role. The New Left guy played an impulsive, rebellious role. It didn't work out too well, but both sides later acknowledged their faults.
That's the security of middle class, you know you have options and can walk away.
we would have aited for the taco stands to circle the wagons and get to point B self determinism but Dylan sang " like a slave in orbit he's beaten till he.s tame..... and i give up but remember La Huelga---the struggle......and we radicals are probably no middle class...which for touchy reasons i hated...now i am a recepient of an army disabled pension....i respect all you lls struggle for self determination....
I was around during this time too but wasn't a part of any particular group. Still, those I knew were indeed pretty radical. Still, we were scared of the SDS and groups like the Weathermen. To us, these groups were far too extreme. We wanted eventual harmony not the overthrow of the government ... just change for a more peaceful world. (We were pretty danged naive. HAHA!)
@@lifecloud2 did you think change could be achieved through voting alone?
It’s so eye-opening to see this 60 years later.
It is impossible to overstate how obvious that in the end, none of these groups want to “level the playing field”. They see an oppressive power structure that they want to overthrow so that *they* can become the new oppressive power structure.
This is exactly why I left the left this time. Same BS.
Yes Blacks want self determination and want the dominant culture to leave them the h3ll alone. Still the case today.
The SDS platform was CLASSIC Marxist Mott and Bailey, a cheap slight of hand. That guy in Berkeley incidentally was a family friend of my Dad's. My mom was center right leaning, but didn't often led on to how idiotic a lot of my Dad's ideas were. It was the 60's.
This was absolutely fascinating. Please keep them coming.
Encouraging, thank you!
It's f'n brilliant.
Agreed, these guys need all the support on patreon and the like. I hope he's able to keep pushing! It'll be a slow grind but great content always, eventually rises to the top.
@No One Yippies were members of the Youth International Party. The two big personalities were Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Where most of the new left would be considered maoist, the yippies were more fluid, though closer to anarchist/libertarian socialist. They were a much more theatrical organization with much less involvement in violence or outright terrorism. Also, yuppies were baby boomers rather than gen x and were continuing on from hippies, through yippies and then to yuppies.
@@isabelgellibrandi7496 While Rubin became the quintessential yuppie, you can't say the same of Abbie Hoffman. After going underground and under an assumed name, he became a very active environmental activist, fighting the system that initially tried to sweep the Love Canal disaster under the carpet. He was politically consistent and much more articulate than Jerry Rubin. His suicide was as much a protest against the yuppies' self-centeredness as out of personal depression.
On a personal note, I first encountered Abbie on October 21, 1967, date of my first arrest for trying to levitate the Pentagon. No sense of humor in the government. Anyway, he was kind, funny and brilliant.
I'd also add that most of the New Left was not Maoist in either theory or praxis.
This is probably the most informative channel I have recently found (or, rather, been recommended) on UA-cam.
The key draw is just your presentations style and the very educative way you display pictures, use short video clips, and highlight text from books. You would make a great professor I think.
I also hope you are doing OK and staying healthy, Ryan.
I think is too. So many people are misinformed. 😊
yea ive enjoyed his videos. if youd like other recommendations - not only do i have a categorized list on my channel's playlists,
but the Michael Sugrue channel as well as New Discourses channel are great
@@philosophicalneo Thanks.
Just for perspective if a truck driver is late dropping off a shipment he has to explain why and what steps he took and will take in the future. If an intellectual presents ideas and draws faulty conclusions from faulty and singular perceptions………..there’s no accountability.
@@josephososkie3029 Who are you asking this question?
I was a child in the sixties. I remember the protests and marches but understood nothing about it. I was never clear on the subject. I’m much clearer after watching this. You made it easy to follow. Good job.
Same here.
I was born in '62 and remember being afraid of "hippies." lord 😕
That's awesome! I guess that would be like me in the 2000s. How actually was it in the 60s? I feel like I want to like this time, I am a left-winger, after all, but when I look back at the old footage and what it seemed to be like, I get chills of terror. I best describe this time as "Satan running wild"; everything we experience in the 2010s and 2020s is nothing compared to the 60s; they rhyme but what was going on in the 60s was way, way darker. It just really creeps me out. You had real, violent racists (not just people we label as such, but the real deal), you had environmental pollution and destruction we can't even imagine today, we don't realize just how spoiled we actually are. I enjoyed 2020 and wish it went further; people went about those protests almost like it was fun, compared to the Civil Rights protests; people got beaten near to death back then and kept going, that was serious life-or-death stuff.
I've tried three times to comment on this and the other two were rejected. So much for free speech.
In 1969, for some unfathomable reason I sat next to Stokley on a flight from Chicago To Savana. I was a 14 year old kid and had no clue who Mr. Carmichael was. But for well two hours I sat next to and talked with, a very nice and inquisitive man. Here I was a white Catholic kid from Utah and now that I have reflect upon it, what an anomaly we both were to one another. The one thing that has always stayed with me was his tolerance and patience with my naive questions and complete lack of understanding of the mentality of Bull Connors, Segregation, and Jim Crow. God bless you Stokley . Thanks to you, I never stopped learning.
What a great memory. Thanks for sharing.
Wow it is those serendipitous meetings that make life a great adventure.
Carmichael being a grown man at the time you describe, and your being 14, I would argue his failure to be inquisitive enough. There you were ( and are) just getting on with life trying to do your best like anyone else. You had (and have) fxxx all to do with Jim Crow laws, or oppressing anybody, or doing anything to disoblige Carmichael or anyone else. You were an obstinately real bit of evidence that his crackpot, mean spirited, shallow ideas, cut and pasted from the awful brute buried in North London were just that. So I guess he spent the flight thrashing out a workaround. You were a good kid, eager to please your elders. He was the xxxxx who xxxxx up the work of Dr King, who was a great man.
Kudos to your 14 year old self to have had sufficient confidence and curiosity to engage in a conversation with an adult so that he deemed it worth his time to take seriously.
My father had a similar story. I grew up in Oakland and he actually met Huey Newton )founder of the Black Panthers) in a bar. My dad being a young white college graduate had a productive and friendly conversation with him as well. We all used to speak and listen very well. A far cry from those who just cancel censor and scream now.
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen on UA-cam, and I've seen far too many. This is the first time I'm goving money on youtube.
Your channel is a veritable goldmine. Thank you for your work, and may you keep doing it.
The Weathermen, aka the Weather Underground, didn’t kill anyone in their bombings (except 3 of their own group) but they did rob a Brink’s truck and killed two Brinks security guards. Two members of the Weather Underground, David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, went to jail for over 20 years for that crime. They had a son together, who became the now recalled DA of San Francisco - Chesa Boudin.
And most were jews who are sitting on their hands during the genocide in the middle east.And dont forget slick willie pardoned suzzane rosenberg who was responsible for the brinks car murders.Im sure she is enjoying her life on the uws of manhatten woith her comrades
Children should not suffer for the sins of the father.
@@andrewa9694 what about their own sins?
@@goodgrief888 yes of course
@@goodgrief888with parents like that? Who the hell needs enemies? Jesus christ! No wonder SF is fucked, I mean that's worse than when I looked back at how much influence Jim Jones had over the left and how Harvey Milk and all the other old democrat heads started off being assistants and coffee gofers for these people.
This is hands down my favorite channel. Love these deep dives so much. I've read tons of books on political history, especially on the left, and even I learn a bunch of new stuff on every video. I clearly don't know as much as I thought, which is super exciting to know. There's always more to learn! Thank you so much for the content
Japan also had a New Left movement that was at it's peak during the 1960s to the 1970s. It was much more notorious than the American Left at the time, using methods of terrorism, which caused public distrust, and also eventually caused the movement to decline.
Interesting I have to wonder what influence Mao might have been pushing into that, not to mention the USSR since they were active in the US and Asian countries around that time.
Do tell us more, maybe make a video. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is interested.
Sounds like US/NATO-backed Gladio. Gladio existed not just in Europe but also Asia such as Turkey.
The new left also used terrorism btw.
@@spacewater7spectacles has made a video “japan in 60 was crazy” or something like that
Found your channel randomly and I'm so glad I did! We are in dire need of objective content like yours. Thank you!
I was born in 1954 and graduated from UC Berkeley in 1979. As a precocious young man, I watched it all. It wasn't the loudest voices that dominated, nor any one idea that was spoken. Two things led: 1. people addictively enthralled by their own personal ability to interconnect and verbalize ideas--and thus keep themselves feeling powerful. 2. emotion expressed as powerful judgmentalism; which turned groups into aggressive mobs (even a group as small as 2 people). I saw people standing side by side, of equal intelligence, choosing different paths: the critical thinking development of an organized science degree OR the mind-stalling act of attaching oneself like leeches to specific ideas. Even still, instead of judging the past I observe the outcomes. Medical & technological advancements are obvious, but when the military hawks tried to convince President Johnson to use 'limited nuclear warfare' in Vietnam, he said that the hippy-peace counterculture may be right, so he didn't start a nuclear war. However it may come about, let's hope today's generations can stop mankind from further exasperating the climate change dilemma.
perfect video to watch with the university protests
As an individual who live through and participated in the period you describe I affirm you have accomplished an accurate yet gentle appraisal of those days. Thank you for an excellent job.
I really like the book screenshots
Yah - but wish he would read what was written..!!!
The thing I respect most about your videos is a degree of honesty that is almost unrecognizable in these strange times.
One of the best pieces of content I’ve listened to lately.
Phenomenal research. You clarified a lot on this time period and made it all easy to follow and understand. A lot of things I did not learn in history. Great work. Subscribed and looking forward to watching your other videos.
60's radicals were the start of today's craziness. At the same time, in 1966, China started Cultural Revolution.
@@seanleith5312yep
To answer your question why this isn’t taught correctly?
It is, just not in High school, and involves deeper political science and/or law studies in college to find.
Despite that, I still really enjoyed your video! Very informative!
imo, it's at least partially because of how dominated by conservatives school boards are. We avoid teaching about Marx and Marxism at all costs, like he's fucking Voldemort. Conservatives are so extreme in their hatred of Marxism that they can't be bothered to even attempt an honest critique.
I was thinking the same, getting a high school student to distinguish between Socialism and Communism is challenge enough.
They completely ignore the horrors of communism in high-school.
@@Individual_Lives_Matter All they teach us is communism bad, none of the actual beliefs or ways their governments are organized, last thing we need is more garbage red scare propaganda
Ryan Chapman is one of the very rare people on UA-cam who has a stab at giving a fair representation of different political positions.
Colossal effort putting that lot together.
Well beyond me, but I benefit from.
There are plenty who give it a stab, with varying degrees of success. This one is the best on that score for sure. I guess he's a Liberal due to the telltale personality traits, but wouldn't put money on it.
you will notice how only right wingers will see this as fair representation and everyone else will just see it as nonesense designed to be entertaining to a youtube crowd.
What personality traits are those? @@Dude0000
@@hybridh9702You will notice that only the far left sees this as nonsense and everyone else including liberals see this for the truth that it is.
It’s actually quite a good way to go about history because political leanings can greatly impact the way in which you view historical events.
Dude, you are fantastic! I'm sad to say that I am finally learning so much about events that are so important to the current reality. Also, love the complete disclosure of literature and clear use of context. I've already added several books to my library. Your ability to present in-depth information in a manner that seems to be a genuine strive for people to think for themselves is a gift (one that I'm sure you've worked insanely hard to cultivate). This type of content is so helpful! Thank you.
So well done. I have been delving into this time period within the last few weeks. As well as the breakdown of how classical liberalism evolved into modern liberalism, keynesian and the rise of neoliberalism to make sense of what is happening today in both the economic and cultural spheres of our society. Can't wait to see more from you. Keep it up!
What's neoliberalism??? I'm telling you this because this is a common term used by most of the left (but especcially the marxists left) to reffer to: 1) Classic Liberalism (this includes obviously Locke, Hobes, Hume but more precissely Smith and Ricardo; which we can't forget were pretty influential to Marx, even the fact he hated free market); 2) both the Austrian and Chicago School Economics whose politics were implemented (till a certain point) on military dictatorships in Latin-America (which were clearly not Fascist regimes, even the fact were anticommunist and pretty autoritarian) by the USA and the UK goverment; 3) Moderns Liberals and Socialdemocrats (which many marxists-leninists and classic liberals, tend to hate because they've unfortunely absorb some of the identity politics); or 4) Maybe just simply Capitalism.
The same question can be used for Cultural Marxism??? Which term is employed on this video by the owner of this channel who forgot to mention that it was a term used by Fascists (more especifacally by Nationalsocialists) and now is been used by modern populist conservatives... I'm not saying he's one of them but we need be more critique with ourselves and called the movements by its name and not the name we want to call it because that's kind of dishonest.
@@pavelm.gonzalez8608 Terms get thrown around way to often yes. Neo-Liberalism only makes sense if it is the Austrian and Chicago schools of economic, and the policies they have helped create. The new wave of liberalization that happened from the 80’s and 90’s forward. Frankly I don’t hear the term being used as much anymore. Globalization and austerity being the new “words” used by the left.
@@pavelm.gonzalez8608 The second Perón regime was certainly fascist in its philosophy. And the later Galtieri regime was fascist in practice. Indeed, the entire political make-up of the southern cone states was fascist, co-opting populism (Perón 1) and supporting military dictatorships (Brasil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay). The people of the region still struggle with the aftermath of Kissinger's realpolitik.
@@HappyCatholicDane The main reason is that most people do not know enough to separate economic liberalism (let industry be self-regulating) from social liberalism.
This is why the Liberal Party (business), the Venstre and Conservativ (farmers) in Denmark are among the most conservative/reactionary groups in the country, which is dominated by the centrist Social Democrats (& just to their right, the Radikaler) with only the Socialist People's Party (SF) and Enhedslisten representing the left. The Danske Folkeparti (& earlier the rather foolish anti-tax party, whose name I have forgotten) were both so extreme in their fear of outsiders that they discredit themselves with most Danes.
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@@davidyohalem629 Venstre (left), is the liberal party in Denmark, as well as the traditional farmers party. They were opposed by Højre (right), which is now the Conservative party. Both are center right parties, and generally more business oriented than reactionary.
Further to the right you have other parties, that are either reactionary or extremely liberal (think libertarian).
At the center of Danish politics, you have Radikale Venstre (ironically mean radical left), which is a social liberal party that was traditionally associated with small farmers and academics. Also we have a new dedicated centrist party run by a former prime minister. There is also a Christian Democratic Party, but they are struggling to get in.
Then you have the social democrats. Which are center left.
Further on the left you have alternativet. Which is a weird party based on environmental policies and social justice issues. Also you have Socialistisk Folkeparty, and the more extreme Enhedslisten.
Thanks Ryan I shall listen to again since I am sleepy and your presentation is honest and meaty.
I appreciate all of work and videos.
Johnny of Boston.
I love your channel! I will definitely donate when I can :)
Your approach is one of most unpartisan and educational I’ve come across. I’ve learned many things about different movements and ideologies, and also find myself going back to older videos to watch them again.
Thank you for making such interesting and thought provoking content!
Stokely Carmichael wanted black people to focus on race and be racist. How did that work out? What a terrible idea.
"History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes." - Mark Twain
That has nothing to do with this. This is a case of ideas coming back and evolving. Without what happened in the 60s, we wouldn't be where we are now. History often doesn't repeat or rhyme in the matter of intellectualism, it's usually a case of ideas being based on other ideas.
@@brunoactis1104"It's usually a case of ideas being based on other ideas." The end of segregation was a good thing, now the Left is pushing back towards it for some reason trying to atomize the individual.
Ur right
Another great job, Ryan. You are gifted to be able to sift through the literature and synthesize it into digestible bites.
I’m so grateful for this channel. Seriously. So happy I’ve found it
I like how you delivered this video. Lil more pep in your voice and not so much grim. I love your stuff just started watching yesterday!! Amazing info. Goat channel
This was actually great Ryan. I actually have a fairly basic hypothesis for why this isn’t as heavily covered in school is that when American history is covered in High school over a single year that the class typically ends around the 1960s anyways and school administrators and such probably only want to cover the more positive aspects like the civil rights movement, feminism and maybe some stuff about the Vietnam war or watergate. Not to mention parents who grew up from the 60s probably are still a little traumatized from this era. But that’s probably fading away as anyone alive then are probably becoming grandparents.
Personally when I was in High school we got stuck for a month on labor movements around the turn of the century for the big annual project and in College which was half a semester we did the 60s but not in depth and more focused on things like local rioting and general civil unrest.
@@RobespierreThePoofwhenever anyone has to “prioritize” or ”edit,” usually due to time or space constraints, the question is, WHAT do you prioritize and what do you decide is less important? I’m not disagreeing with what you said. I am saying that different perspectives at different times, and different individuals doing the prioritizing, will choose to leave different things on the “editing floor.” What qualifies as basic historical education will be based on a number of factors, including your sociopolitical position and philosophy, and who you think qualifies as “us” and who as “them.”
Two questions: What year did you take AP American History? And did you learn about “black Wall Street” and its literal destruction?
I love your videos, particularly these deep dives. You’re extremely articulate and crystal clear in your your explanations. Please keep doing these!
I have a sociology degree, but I'm hearing some of the issues, and ideas for the first time from your channel. I know how difficult this kind of research can be, so I appreciate your lectures very much. Keep them coming!
an excellent treatise on cultural marxism and its tactics within the context of our recent history
You’re my new favorite channel. Binging all of your videos…. This is so much better than Netflix.
After watching this I'm all caught up on your full body of work, looks like I left the best till last, hope to see more deep dives in future. Well done my dude, Patreon in-bound.
Thank you! So important to understand what’s happening behind the scenes of today’s protests movements.
Your video is 💯 exactly analysis you provided. We need to get your views out to as many people as possible. Amazing work
The new left also developed ideas from the young Marx that were more philosophical and humanist. The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts were translated from the German in the 60s and had a big impact on new left ideology. I was a student at UCLA in the late sixties and the sociology depts were very radical and influenced the young Marx's writings.
I studyed socology in the UK in the 1980s and Marx was one of the view points you had to learn amongst others. I was also doing some psychology. My teacher asked if i knew why some sociology students would become Marx fanatics after the lessions. Could not explain then but could now.
@BeachandHills-hb2pq I think by the time Einstein comes along everyone understands marx thst much better, and thus his work becomes that much more dangerous for it's truths, it becomes the devil by proxy.
@@DJWESG1 I would say Marx spent his life trying to creat revolutions in countrys around Euroup. He became a good sociologist trying to understand why he failed. He is half correct. If you follow his ideas you will get the rivers of blood he talked about, He used the French revolution and the terror as some thing to copy. He is a Devil he taught you should create terror in the poulation to push your revolution forward. THe proletariat can see what Marxists do and the methods they use. The words of revolution do not work on them. The reason the Europians reject Marxism for 150 years.
Are you going to do an Episode on the evolution of conservatism? Maybe the rise of evangelicalism in the party? I think that would be facinating.
He seems objective so probably will.
Hey Kevin, I actually planned on doing that right after the 'evolution of liberalism' video, but the response to the liberalism video was lukewarm and the research process was long and tiring, so I put it on the back burner. I plan on circling back to it (and finishing with a progressivism video), but can't promise anything.
I would really like to see that video. I grew up evangelical and in the military (army brat), so politics and religion always went hand in hand. As an adult, I don’t associate myself with evangelicalism and I claim no political affiliation, so being removed from that frame of reference makes me really curious about that specific development.
@@realryanchapman Thank you for your research. After watching this i was very curious to learn about the evolution of conversatism because of much the lines have been blurred in recent years and people who previously identified as liberals now are considered or consider themselves conservative for not having adopted postmodern philosophies
@@realryanchapman I thought your video on American Liberalism was quite good, except that you're allowing what Americans call "conservatives" to refer to themselves as "classical liberals", which they do, it seems to me, to intentionally muddy the waters (because they want to obscure their support of neoliberalism, a topic I've studied extensively).
In the US liberals = Democrats, Republicans = conservative. They don't tie back to European concepts in any meaningful way. It confused me greatly when I first started to study this.
So good I had to listen to it twice. Thank you for the unbiased clarification- I am enjoying all of your podcasts
U watched twice I downloaded it to my sd card and only use a device that I never use on line its never been online.its a Virgin ans going to stay that way
degoogle your children's phones and check out to make sure that they haven't had it googled.
SAVE THE CHILDREN.
Mr. Chapman, this is the most interesting channel I have found in a very long time. Thanks.
I was 17 years old in 1968. I was in high school. I lived in the San Fernando Valley, in California. I remember students protesting the Vietnam war. I was dating at the time and my boyfriend was drafted. When I entered the 12th grade, students from Northridge University were protesting. I did not understand exactly what they were protesting about at the time, but then I remembered it was noon and these outsiders came on campus and were screaming down the halls. The administration came over the intercom and told us to lock our doors. My teacher was 5 months pregnant. She was terrified, and so was everyone in the class room. That experience left me with such a disgusting feeling towards protesting was all about. To this day I hate students who protests. Students have been indoctrinated ever since. After High School I took a trade and went to work. Some of my friends went to the University. I married my sweet heart at age 20. This was in the Carter years. Gas shortage and a lot of chaos. I went to community College when I was 26 years old. I took 2 classes per semester. It took me about about 8 years to get my associates degree in child development. I was able to see how the school culture was being influenced by liberal professors. A few of my friends who went to University became very aware of racism. They developed a oppressed attitude. I was working in the Real WORLD, so I didn’t experience racism. Fast Forward today I told my niece to go to CSUN. She took a Woman’s Study Course in her first year and preceded to tell me she was oppressed as a woman. The indoctrination had begun. I explained to her it was 2020 and that she was not oppressed. I am so sick of oppressed and oppressor. It is so easy to Brain Wash a nineteen year old. Even early 20’s
Loved your comment ❤
Protesting issues isn't inherently bad, and also how is knowing that racism and sexism exists “indoctrination”
God bless you ma'am. The educational system in this country has been hijacked since the 1960s. I like how you said people that weren't supposed to be on campus were coming onto campus that didn't belong there. Same thing happening again right now all across the country. You asked these young inexperienced in life people why exactly they are protesting, and can't give you a good solid reason. Like you, I'm sick of the oppressed and oppressor garbage! Again thank you and God bless you!
Appreciate your providing your personal background to,your present-day experience.
@@StrawberryCocoaPowderyou pressed the exit button too soon.
As a person who lived through those days it is refreshing to hear a clear and concise explanation of many of the events going on in the 1960s. It is, as you know an impossible task to understand or explain all that was going on at the time. I think you have done a fantastic job of getting to the core of much of it. People today, have little understanding of how strong an influence this was. Remember of course, this is long before the internet. Had the internet existed at the time, this story and history would probably be a very different one. Thank you again for your excellent presentation.
Thank you for this huge effort. I’m 68 yrs old. And always confused about this. Would love to hear you critique how it’s led to the left situation today
Damn man, that was way too well researched, level headed, and reasonable for the internet. 🎩 off my friend. New subscriber 🤙
I was child during the 60s and what I know of that time is what I remember from watching the nightly news each day on a black and white TV. This video was an interesting overview that evoked many memories but with information and perspective. Thanks.
Bell's End of Ideology is a very good book, even when wrongheaded. He was a forerunner of neocons. The basic idea was revisited in Fukuyama's End of History and the Last Man, although he was lamenting the end of that history. Most people don't see that.
Btw, those of us who grew up in the 60s have not forgotten the New Left. I always say, the 60s inoculated me from being on the left while the 90s cured me from being on the right.
Fascinating.
How would you describe your beliefs now?
@@uku4171 I'm a moderate. I pretty much despise all ideology and fanatical followers of ideology, whether left or right. I can't identify with either Republicans or Democrats.
@@donjindra your a fence sitter that stands for nothing
Almost anything that Bell writes can be considered wrongheaded.
This is so informative and makes many things right now make sense. Thanks for this!❤
This is not a criticism ... but one thing that might be difficult to capture ... is how tumultuous the era was in general. Corruption and injustice permeated a lot of society and there were SO MANY CHANGES happening at once ... that everyone, in every walk of life, felt dizzy from it all (well, except for the people poised to profit and gain power).
In 1910, there were only 10 miles of paved roads in America. On 7% of Americans had enough education to graduate from high school. Everyone grew their own food, etc. Most homes didn't have running water or electricity until the 1920s-50s. An ice truck would deliver a big block of ice to keep your food cold. Then, after WWII, seemingly overnight, we invent the suburbs, television (and frozen TV dinners and pre-made cereal), the nuclear family, and teen culture (sock hops, cars, records, fast food). We were being sold every kind of gadget and gizmo (consumerism was rampant and we were buying American Culture - even though it didn't exist a decade earlier).
But there were also murmurings of things like Operation Ajax - where the CIA ousted democratically elected leaders in foreign lands and replaced them with someone who would allow our companies to exploit the resources, profits, and people of their countries - such as when the CIA led a coup against Jacob Arbenz in Guatemala giving United Fruit Company the ability to grow bananas, or, when they installed the Shah of Iran so we could have access to oil. Nuclear power was sold as "too cheap to meter" (which was only true if you overlooked the need for safety standards and disposal of waste materials that would be radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years).
Once you added the draft - where you could plucked out of your life and be sent TO KILL PEOPLE, Emmett Till, buses set on fire ... it all got to be a bit much.
But EVEN THEN, for all the chaos, and even though the New Left existed on the spectrum, most people were simply not interested and they didn't have that much influence. In a world with so many new ideas and things happening - it wasn't completely surprising that there would be some people who would take things too far. No one knew what was needed or what would work. Time and time again, the New Left fell apart because their ideas didn't work, or they were rejected by the people who were working towards real reform within the framework of our Constitution and with a commitment to "liberty and justice for all."
You mean reinstalled the Shah? He never went away, just ceded power temporarily to the legislature.
Yeah nothing about that is unique my guy, still doesn't excuse making the world a globalized neo liberal shithole see a result...
Context, context, context, Mr. Chapman! The 1960's left/liberation movements cannot be understood without discussing the facts to which those movements were responding. For instance, students weren't just youngsters reading Marx and 'getting radical.' We were embedded in a government/cultural system in which the following was occurring:
- the U.S. military was in the process of slaughtering 3 MILLION people in Southeast Asia, with almost 60,000 U.S. soldiers killed and many more injured;
- all young men in the USA were subject to the DRAFT at that time and could, at any moment, have their lives ended or ruined by being conscripted to this "military-industrial complex" boondoggle/slaughterhouse on the other side of the world;
- the world context of U.S. terrorism was becoming known: the U.S. overthrowing elected governments in Guatemala, Iran, Chile, Indonesia and elsewhere, with horrible consequences;
- the CIA takeover of the National Student Association had been revealed (early '60s) and the CIA's malevolent, covert activities throughout the world and within our own country were coming to light;
- three peace-oriented US leaders were assassinated within the space of 5 years (1963-1968): JFK, MLK, RFK;
- 3 civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi in 1964; many black Americans were being beaten, lynched, viciously segregated and denied the right to vote;
- the Soviet Union was liberalizing itself, rejecting Stalinism and seeking peaceful co-existence with the US (Nikita Krushchev era - Krushchev wept when JFK was murdered; they had a peace pact);
- the vicious McCarthy 'anti-communism' internal witch-hunt had only just ended (the 1950s) but there were still plenty of vicious anti-communists around (& in power) in addition to assorted bigots of all kinds and social structures of serious and often violent oppression - overt against blacks and against gays and systemic against women (for instance, all their work - housekeeping, cooking, raising children - was unpaid, and violence against them was ignored, even expected as 'normal').
And this ain't the half of it, Mr. Chapman. I lived it. I was a freshmen in college when JFK was assassinated. My first vote for president was for LBJ who promised peace (ha-ha on me!). I was there at the Century City anti-war protest in L.A. in 1967 and witnessed and ran from the police riot. I had traveled to Georgia and Alabama in 1965 to volunteer for MLK's voter registration drive and was myself under threat many times.
Listening to your take on original documents of the left/liberation movements of the 1960s struck me as lifeless, soul-less and clueless. It's kind of like reading the Bible as if it were history. There is a difference between people writing things and people doing things or responding to things being done. Call it manifestos vs reality.
A much better approach to the tumult of the 1960s would be: Why did we (my generation) fail? With all that aspiration to a peaceful world and social justice, how did our country end up as it is now?
One clue: In "The Project for a New American Century" - the Neo-Cons' bible - the manifesto of the people currently running the USA - the authors lay out how many countries they are going to invade, to achieve full spectrum dominance of the world, but they opine that, first, they need to overcome "the Vietnam Syndrome" (Americans' hatred of war). They wistfully say that it will take a "new Pearl Harbor" to re-militarize the USA. (This was a pre-9/11 document.) (Um...they got their wish.)
WHAT. WENT. WRONG?
I'd suggest that there was a lack of serious policy within the New Left and an overemphasis on identity division. It's easy to call for the overthrow of capitalism, but what's your economic policy?
These problems persist within the modern left, and for that matter, the modern right. Conservatives more easily fall in line, though, which is why they're capable of organising around nonsense.
In order to win, the left needs policy visions and power concentrations that can bind people. Most people are rightly repelled by the emphasis on special interests.
1. Unpaid work??? How about a home, a family, etc. Does payment need to be a cheque, an envelope of cash?
2. Some history is included in the bible and it can and is read for its historical record. Archaeology and other documents corroborate some of the bible.
You sound a bit extreme.
Not many want to read a “comment “ that looks like a book - just saying snapperhead !! More concise , more simple less hot air !! Hot it mr war and peace ?
It's confusing to me that all my elders call young people radicals yet they were living in a huge radicalized movement.
Remember that all the people represented here were a very small minority of all the kids their age. Even the total membership of the Students for a Democratic Society at its peak were less than the number of people who attend Coachella now in a single day.
And the kids who didn't do this stuff, either because they didn't go to college or because they did not approve of it, often _hate_ these people. These were their peers that they didn't get along with. My dad straight up calls anybody involved with any of these movements "evil" - and I don't think his opinion of that has changed since the 1960s.
It's probably not a coincidence that these radical student movements were focused on people who went to college and the modern conservative reactionary backlash is focused on the peers of those people who didn't go to college.
That kind of extremism only bubbled up because the situation was so extreme in the United States.
Great video, as always. It's a damn shame it was so early on in your catalogue.. it should have millions of views.
I’m subbed Ryan. You are doing a thing that needs to be done, and doing it in probably the best way I have seen on this platform. Thank you!
I graduated high school 1969. The Viet Nam War was raging, there was a draft and every 18 year old male had to register at their high school or be charged with a federal felony. Civil rights were being struggled for. Massive change was going on in every sphere. It was a different era and the New Left offered solutions that the two American political parties could not offer. Under those conditions it was only normal and healthy for idealistic young people too seek new political movements.
I'm noticing a lot of similarities between the tactics of the SDS and the Palestinian movement at least as far as media manipulation.
Palestinians were trained by KGB and Arafat was a Russian agent
Martin Luther King Jr was not a liberal tho.
This is why he was assassinated. Because he didn't lean to the left enough, they wanted him gone.
Maybe see it more like Liberal Socialist vs Marxist socialist. Main difference is the later thinks they'll win by a civil war.
He leaned towards a leftist stance but kept his politics out of things. So what was he then?
The thing I like about your videos Ryan, is that it teaches us to always look back at history, for examples of a movement's origins
Ryan, MLK wasn't a liberal. His bestie was Norman Thomas and his Poor People's Campaign was about socialism. Search "The Bravest Man I Ever Met" which he wrote.
I've always been fascinated by the 60's and its activism but I've never seen this side of it. Great work. Thank you!
This video is an academic triumph. I have never heard this level of clarity brought to the formation of our modern political landscape. I feel more at peace now that I understand the underpinnings of these ideas.
What is sad is that this kind of quality would have been relatively common 30 years ago when academia was much more objective and less agenda driven.
It’s difficult for the young to do engaging history. I think there were a few instances of cherry-picking: and I’m also appreciative of Ryan’s efforts to modulate, self-correct, and take intellectual risks. Historical context could receive greater emphasis, albeit at the expense of the bigger bang… quite the balancing act. I’ll continue to watch, support, and share.
I remember watching the movie Oppenheimer, and thinking wow they’ve been at it for decades, and only went into the shadows
Radical Son by David Horowitz is a great read and a dive into the issues this video addresses, including the author’s brush with the Black Panthers etc.
Contrary to your statement near the end of this excellent presentation, Indeed the Weather Underground did, in 1970, set off an explosion in a Greenwich Village townhouse which killed 3 of its own members. This led to Mark Rudd going underground himself to escape arrest.
What is somehow overlooked is that the New Left was not a benign movement, the weather underground is case in point. They KILLED people.
This was an accident which happened while they were building the bomb.
It was their own building and harmed on their group. They were building bombs in the basement.
Philip Roth's American Pastoral draws on this event.
As a man who loves history, I can safely say that subscribing to this channel is worth it. By the way, since you do a lot of reading on history and politics with a focus on America, have you read the Oxford Edition History of the United States of America, and if you have, what did you think of each entry from "The Glorious Cause" to "From Colony to Super Power: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776"?
I recommend your videos ALL THE TIME .... fact is, there's just not enough of this type of unbiased political educational content. Thank you, Ryan. It is a true service to simply speak the truth. Non biased Education about the roots of the modern cultural ideological clusterfk we all have to navigate is worth more than gold in the information age.
hiii im a historian of the new left and this video is very useful masterclass on how explain my research to non-academic peeps- thank you!
Its good to recognize people as individuals, and its especially important to do so when interacting with some particular individual. But we can't just pretend that groups don't exist. Peoples affiliation - say, with a political party or a gender or a profession - have an impact on their decision making process. These affiliations might be important for different reasons - say, personal values or material conditions or social constructs - but any framework that is willfully blind to the existence of groups does not contain a complete description of the world and is insufficient to tackle the challenges of our day.
Well done. Would love to hear you and James Lyndsay discuss this topic.
I'm sharing this with James Lindsay on Twitter. He probably won't catch it, is Twitter feed is too big.
It would be interesting. Lyndsay probably would be ok with it.
You did an articulate job of delineating a very difficult era in history. Thank you for your objective reporting connecting sixties dots to 2010's-20's landscape.
Absolutely love this channel. For the extraordinary, baffling moments of the present, yours is perhaps the most important channel on UA-cam at the moment.
All of your analysis on many topics is rich in nuance, thank you for and keep up the good work. Your ability to strongman both sides of the argument are stunning and needed in this day and age
Ryan, I was motivated to comment by your last defense of your work from critics that talk about the New Left differently. I was there, I was a member of SDS, briefly. I was mostly a "draft counselor" helping kids know their risks and options, including emigrating to Canada. We trained on "resistance" which was opening refusing induction. I left the movement in 1969 but followed, and agreed, with most of it. Many friends worshiped Marcuse and we all saw ourselves as socialists. I agree with you that most SDS members and sympathizers really were reformists, not revolutionaries. Even when we talked about revolution, it was often a metaphor for great change achieved through reforms. For example, MLK was everyone's hero, not Carmichael or Rap Brown. The Black Panthers has a thuggish overtone form the beginning.
Anyway, I have gone on too long. I just wanted you to know that I was awake, read the newspaper every day and was paying attention and I think you got it just right.
I appreciate your unbiased account, and especially your focus on how dishonest players sometimes tried to weaponize legitimate discontent and emotional messaging to cynically gain power for themselves, unrelated to their stated goals. It was America losing its innocence. I dream we can get it back, in the sense of honest brokerage.
I might agree with you but considering history of the genocide of native Americans, couldn't this innocence be false and destructive. Then again I am very against cynicism these days. And the lack of optimism and empathy dangerous.
Thank you thank you thank you! I was a well-educated 'revolutionary' for Good (!) who acquired an anoxic brain injury--'death', 6 month coma etc etc --and I dearly needed a thorough 'refresher course'--I am so happy I don't have to re-do my research & ample reading. Mercy buckets
Another fantastic piece. Always appreciate how careful you are to lampshade any potential issues (like you did pointing out the possible "cherry-picking" not once but twice).
I found this video because I'm a patreon supporter (actually I made an account just to support these vids :) ), though it makes me very sad to see that UA-cam is soft-censoring your work.
Keep at it! We need more videos like this one in the world today!
These are stellar, some of the best executed and well researched content in the right chunks. Keep going. This will grow.
I just noticed that in between the two paragraphs you quoted about the occasion where a feminist house representative’s microphone was taken away, it explained that Miss Miller, the next speaker, had negative experiences with men in the Black Panther movement treating women as oppressively as the society they were critiquing had done. I think this goes a long way towards explaining why she would have such a negative opinion of men. Of course it sounds absurd to us today to hear someone say they’re categorically not going to work with men anymore, but when you look at what she had to deal with in the political movements of her time, it makes a lot more sense why she would say that. If a woman today said the same thing, but her experience was largely with men who already support gender equality, then that would sound as extreme as your video made Miller’s view sound.
That said, this video was extremely enlightening for me. Thank you.
The tactics used by the SDS on the Berkeley campus are classic tactics promoted by the Soviets (and since 2000, the CCP) in which they would train students in whichever country they wished to infiltrate.
Such tactics indicate the probable presence of Russian "advisors" within the SDS. As always, communism exploits grievances and where they are lacking, manufactures them. They call this technique "preparing the way" and it is used to agitate and has successfully fomented revolutions around the globe.
Historically, there are ZERO truly organic communist revolutions,, as all have been heavily subjected to this churning and harvesting agitation process during which it is alleged that democratic values have been betrayed by an oppressive elite.
Palestine is a perfect example of this. By inventing tales of massacres and launching jihads and intifadas, and then by rejecting all good-faith liberal offers of appeasement, then crying wolf repeatedly, Israel has been forced to take more and more draconian measures to contain the threat they pose, and Palestinians can then claim they are living in an oppressive state.
The irony about the “cultural Marxist” movement of the New Left is that it became so obsessed with “expanding” Marxism into cultural aspects of society rather than class that it gradually became less rotted in Marxist teachings, as if it gradually gave up on Marx’s theories of historical materialism and class struggle in favor of postmodernism, identity politics, and Critical Race Theory. In other words, what we’ve seen is a gradual decline of interest in actual Marxism among the Left, leading towards what it has now become a postmodernist movement that champions victimhood, performative activism, cult mentality, pessimism, identity politics, and radical skepticism to the detriment of the working class. It is no wonder, then, that corporations, wealthy elites, and left-leaning politicians find it more attractive and beneficial to their agenda than actual Marxism, which was, first and foremost, focused on the liberation of the working class. Then again, it is understandable that because of Marxism’s totalitarian, collectivist, left-wing socialist tendencies, which it shares with the otherwise opposing right-winged socialist ideology of Fascism, people had become disillusioned with it and gradually turned to the Frankfurt School, then Postmodernism, and then finally Social Justice Theories such as CRT, gender studies, and whiteness studies. What we have seen over the years since the fall of the Soviet Union is a decline of influence of Marxism, followed by the rise of woke capitalism, turning the former supporters of Marxism such as Angela Davis into the very bourgeoisie that Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin staunchly opposed.
The process is easy to understand. Marxism itself is a 19th century economic justification for sedition and terrorism that never made much sense, and is even more nonsensical today. It's an economic sum of the prophets with a mathematical basis that never rises above simple algebra, but that is an advantage if you are a relatively ignorant college student. The important characteristic of Marxism is that pseudo-intellectual justification for crime, which proved to be quite lucrative throughout the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.
Capitalism is simply an explanation for how modern money-based economics operates. Capitalism itself is ethics neutral, and whether or not exploitation occurs depends on the specific form that economic behavior takes under a specific form of capitalism. The argument that "capitalism" is "exploitative" makes as much sense as to argue that gravity is murderous, thus it should be abolished. Sometimes Marxists will disavow past Marxist governments of not being "Marxist" or "socialist" but rather being "state capitalist," but this accusation is true for all Marxist governments. Capital does not magically transform into something else once socialists steal it all for themselves, and the exclusionary, totalitarian regime that inevitably (and intentionally) results takes the character of a form of Left fascism. Becoming part of the small, often hereditary socialist elite that results has become the primary goal of Marxist struggle among socialist activists.
Socialism thus has not just evolved into a secular religion. It has become a business, indeed a hustle, and in modern capitalist societies has become the most popular career choice for the children of the upper classes, particularly among those who attend Ivy-League schools. It has become especially popular among black racists and race hustlers. It is the ideological basis of the blatant racism and national socialism of Critical Race Theory, and is how the founders of Black Lives Matter were able to accumulate their millions so quickly. Being fluent in the jargon and intellectual nonsense of this ideology has become a passport to jobs in federal and state bureaucracies in the West and the considerable incomes, benefits and political power that such positions offer. It has become absolutely necessary in the fields of public school teaching and corporate journalism. This gateway to the lucrative exploitation of the working classes is why children of the privileged classes find socialist and Marxist systems of thought so appealing, much for the same reasons that Lenin foresaw.
Well said. I'm surprised to learn this "new left" thing is news to people. This was my understanding of the left coming out of high school. My teachers never spelled it out for me, it all just clicked naturally.
You had marxism, then you had socialism and communism, and finally after that came social justice. Each one tried to improve on the other, but ultimately they all failed.
All of that was totally separate from Liberalism. I never was under the impression that Social Justice or hippies or any of the Left Wing movements of the 20th century were driven by Liberalism. Liberals were around, and participated. But they were only ever complicit with Marxism. Not necessarily marxist themselves. The way Liberals refused to stand up against the radical elements inside thier own circles never sat well with me. And is a major part of what pushed me out of the left later in life. I specifically remember China as a major issue for me. I was pissed about how much we colluded with the CCP at an economic and political level, even as a child I found it to be insane: treasonous I'd call it, before I knew the strict definition of Treason.
When I graduated high school in 2013, socialism was a joke. Social Justice was around, but it wasn't a term we used to describe it. It was just nimby procelitizing. We didn't associate it with a larger movment at the time. Maybe it was because we were just stupid teenagers and couldn't see what was sitting in plain sight.
All that has transpired since then has been eye opening for me. When the SJWs went full retard, and the term started to make headlines as a pajoritive for radical leftwingers, I started looking into the topic a bit more.
The Marxist underpinnings were obvious to me. The obsession with collectives was a dead givaway. But the conservatives were ringing fire alarms like mad.
I came from a working class family of Union Democrats from Massachusetts. We didn't suffer the kind of crazy people associate with the left today. Proggs were only a thing in Boston. And even then, they were just a passing spectacle. You might see a crowd of a few dozen candy colored wigs with a megaphone on a campus. But out in the real world, SJWs weren't a thing.
But slowly, over the years, they started to actually gain power and influence... Somehow. Starting with social programs like education, HR, and politics. But from there thier influence started to encroach into people's day to day life. Suddenly you had to be careful what kinds of jokes you made at work, and soon after that in public.
It just kept getting worse till 2016. I was fed up with the whole thing. Trump came along, and made a circus of the whole world. It was the funniest shit me or my friends ever saw. I voted for him as a protest. I figured my vote was worthless, I'll vote for the Spraytanned orangitang. When he WON I nearly had a brain hemorage from laughing. Ever since I've been on the conservative side of the wall.
And yea, from over here, its really obvious. Stepping out of the left made examining the left alot easier.
Today, I describe myself to strangers as a Libertarian, I'm more comfortable as a deplorable than I was as a Liberal. I still hold the same beliefs, but I analyse politics from a more conservative lens now. I can spot a pinko from 500 yrds. Can't actually shoot for shit, but I got my brain calibrated at least. This video is old news for me.
No, they're still Marxist in important ways, including class change. Still not good and undemocratic.
@@TheWhitehiker Clearly, you haven’t read Karl Marx or anything written by Engels and Lenin. Only a Trump supporter would delude himself that the New Left is still “Marxist” when it has become more about identity politics, narcissism, and making money than anything else. Wokeness is a scam. It’s bad enough we had to spend four years under a conman like Trump.
And the irony is it’s losing favor quickly among the American Populace which I guess means Marxism is on its last legs
I wish we still lived in a society where these were topics of mainstream news coverage and conversation instead of shallow socialites and lying politicians. When public intellectuals were heard instead of silenced.
Correction: Between 1940 and 1960 there was world war 2 and Korean War among other things that affect the us deeply
Yea the more i watch of you, the more i appreciate your existance on this app. Sir, you have my upmost respect. As an independent constitutionalist, with moderate right leaning fiscal views and left leaning social views... i cant begin to thank you enough for doing the good work.
We also got hit by a lot of bullets during that time period.
i can tell you put a lot of work into this and really appreciate it!
*Arrow points in gap just after 1940* "And you think not much happened here" Right, right, just a little thing called World War 2, ain't nothing but a thang.
But seriously, this seems like a really well done video. I think there's a lot of interesting parallels with the new left of the 60's, and the various socialist groups of our current day. A lot of the same critiques and failings are still present between these two movements, despite being separated by multiple decades.
Ryan, I appreciate that you are educating yourself, and doing your own research, which is GREAT. But you are missing out if you think you don't need to research further back than the 60s. We're still going through everything that was present with the Wilson administration, and the French Revolution is still HUGE in the world. The French Revolution is where the terms left and right were were born, and they have been misunderstood ever since ... and that's on purpose. The French Revolution is a period of revolution, the Reign of Terror, and empire. This same pattern is followed repeatedly, in the Russian Revolution, WW2 era Germany, Mao's revolution, and even in Castro's revolution. Modern liberals subscribe to Bentham's philosophy, and he was from the French Revolution era. Marx's philosophies were based on the French Revolution philosophies. All of this led to Progressivism, which was the key philosophy of the Wilson administration. Progressivism is the left and it is the revolution. The "right wing" is simply whoever is not sufficiently on board with the revolution. ("If you're not with us, you're against us.")
Good stuff
A lot of French Revolutionary ideas were preceded by radical groups in the English Civil War, like the Levelers and the Diggers, among others. And I'm sure their ideas didn't arise in a vacuum, either. You can take a lot of current political rifts all the way back to at least the Agricultural Revolution. That was maybe the most radical shift ever in human society, causing a clash of values between new hierarchical structures eventually involving wealthy land-owners and the previous relatively egalitarian small groups of nomadic hunter-gatherers.
@@michaelcriger6359 Of course everything tends to have an antecedent. But that doesn't mean it makes sense to take everything back to the big bang.
It's perfectly fine to study the English Civil War. The English Civil War had a far greater effect on the American Revolution than it did on the French Revolution. The French Revolution is the problematic one, with echoes in all the Marxist revolutions.
The concept of LEFT and RIGHT, used to divide people today, comes from the French Revolution, and Progressive ideology - with its use of phony science for political gain - is part of the Age of Enlightenment. If you want to understand what's going on today, the French Revolution is the pivotal moment to look at.
The French Revolution promised a utopia and delivered a dystopia. That is a key characteristic.
Go ahead and disagree if you want. I'm not going to try to convince you of anything.
@@michaelcriger6359 That's the frustrating thing when it comes to analyzing culture. Any movement in a society is caused by the people who live there, and they are influenced by how they reacted to the previous generations and movements, who are in turn reacting to the previous generation's, and they to the previous, and so on and so on. You will just keep looking back further and further for more and more context, and so at some point you need to just decide to stop.
As a video (probably) meant to inform the general masses about these movements, how they differed from the other liberal movements of the time, and introduce people who likely are entirely unaware of their existence, I think Ryan did an excellent job at giving enough context to understand the movements and why they were the way they were. If the video was intended for audiences already familiar, and for them go even deeper, then going back another generation to the French revolution would work, but it would be information overload for the average layperson.
I'm laughing at this thread. I was thinking the same thing after the first comment that you need to go back to the French Revolution. I though, sure, but you can keep going back to the hunter gatherers...very next comment! 😆
this video should have millions of views and should be part of every young (or any age) person's awareness of what's happening to the West.
Wouldn’t help at this point. If it doesn’t align with their indoctrinated world view they will simply dismiss these facts!
I had misgivings when I started watching this. This was my first exposure to your work, and I was steeling myself to not get upset at what I feared would be a romanticized version of that time. I quickly realized that you were not doing that, and I thank you for it. I was born in 1953, and was a avid follower of events in the news during the 1960s. In the late 1970s a member of the Progressive Labor Party, which had absorbed one of the SDS factions, tried to recruit me. I was curious about how anyone could believe that this little faction would be able to pull off a revolution. I still have a copy of Revolution Today: USA which she gave me. I recall she was very dismissive of feminism and gay liberation. When she tried to close the sale, I told her I just couldn't make the 'leap of faith' required to believe that a popular revolution would bring communism to the United States. My use of a religious term really, really pissed her off.
Good stuff. I have been struggling through the “student” takeover of politics. Tom Hayden who was before my time but seemed a sort of hazy hero of my early teens, wrote: “my intellectual hero is C. Wright Mills, a Marxist who broke with what he condemned as the stale “labor metaphysic” of the communist and socialist parties, embracing instead an international New Left led by middle class students around the world. Mills was fresh, honest and always searching.” You reference Mills early I think. I listened over two days. It makes me laugh because I cannot imagine a more corruptible or stale metaphysic than a movement prioritizing and elitizing an already elitist bunch of the understandably confused early mid twenties mostly white make students. That Western Culture has decided that education is a grail, a universal one, and not an indoctrination allowing some of the chaps in your clips to imagine their rhetoric reveals mostly egotism is, well, a cross we must bear I suppose. I hear and read the same stuff all over social media. Hot times. But stale labor metaphysic is a scary announcement of elitism that probably has souled whatever might have been good and genuine about those years in those movements. It is as inattentive as religion, and a culture we can never shake.
The Hayden article is in the Nation, “I Used to Support Bernie but then I changed my mind.”
Very informative and digestible. I was shocked recently when I saw some old 60's speeches that sounded as if they came from today, full of the exact same unhinged Marxist language. So I especially appreciated your pointing out that a large part of the big movements tried (unsuccessfully, it would seem) to distance themselves from the extreme radicals.
Yep, the same communist rhetoric and provocation tactics are in use today. They also started targeting the black community, and exploiting/ provoking racial conflict, a century ago.
The effect of European movements like the Italian Red Brigades and the German Red Army Faction on far left student radicals was also important. Perhaps only for the romanticized imagery of a globalized blow against the Empire. And don't forget the Symbionese liberation army.
Those groups were the reason Special Forces were created.
All three of the groups you mention were minimal in size and effect, especially the SLA, but also Bader-Meinhoff. The overreaction to their terrorism was used to mobilize public opinion against the "leftist" agenda.
@@cas343 Not true. The now ubiquitous SWAT teams, maybe, but not the Special Forces nor the Green Berets.
@@davidyohalem629 The modern versions of those things were. Delta Force and the SAS were reinvented as counter terrorism units during the Cold War. Specifically due to the number of airline hijackings that were occurring.
@@cas343 Neither the Red Brigades, nor the Baader-Meinhoff Gang was responsible or involved in any airline hijackings. The SLA was a very small group who were into robbing banks and not much else. Oh, and one high profile kidnapping.
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