in 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

in 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.