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You're not serious? Baldwin's ideas haven't stood the test of time. The left-wing radicalism of the 60's fizzled out due a failure in the competition of ideas
by refurb 3y ago
You're not serious? Baldwin's ideas haven't stood the test of time.
The left-wing radicalism of the 60's fizzled out due a failure in the competition of ideas.
- UncleMeat 3y agoAh yes, the competition of ideas is when the FBI murders Huey Newton and the state imprisons war protestors for burning draft cards.
- greenie_beans 3y agoin what ways have they not stood the test of time? baldwin and his contemporaries were influential to the civil rights movement, which had a concrete impact on improving the nation. > The left-wing radicalism of the 60's fizzled out due a failure in the competition of ideas. i don't think it was "the competition of ideas" that caused them to fizzle out. unless you consider state propaganda to be a part of that? and i don't think it's fizzled out. the new left is the dominant mode of american leftism at the current moment in time.
- zeruch 3y agoWhich of his ideas exactly, have not stood up?
- refurb 3y agoReality of the American Dream? Minorities have made more economic progress in the US than many white Americans. Let's start with that. The other arguments about systemic racism are the same arguments pushed by the radical left today, I'd hardly call it "widely accepted".
- zeruch 3y agoThanks for the clown-shoe polemic. I left the GOP because of folks like you. Don't bother replying as I suspect I could map out the quality in advance.