Notes for Whoever’s Left

Perhaps it is presumptuous for those of us who were often sharply critical of the New Left to address ourselves now to its scattered and disorganized followers. Yet among them are future friends and allies—who have begun to make criticisms of their own—and it is important that we find a way to talk together, sooner rather than later. The last years of sectarian in-fighting, ideological debauch, and pseudorevolutionary violence have taken a heavy toll, not only among New Left militants. Th...