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Dohrn, Bernardine

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Recording of the three speakers invited to address the twentieth anniversary benefit celebration for the Guardian, the radical weekly newspaper, held at the Fillmore East. (00:00:00) Introduction by Radio Free People; (00:00:50) Oglesby discusses the political system and future of the New Left and left movements under the coming Nixon administration; (00:20:15) Bernardine Dohrn introduction for Herbert Marcuse; (00:20:45) Marcuse discusses the situation of the left (and New Left) in sustaining and transforming the U.S. political system focusing on the opposition of the majority to revolutionary change; (00:48:24) H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin) critiques the infantile, bourgeois, cultural nastiness of white people; discusses the difference between militancy, radicalism, and revolution, criticizing the Guardian for not being revolutionary, political leadership, role of Black Americans in politics.
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Sound Recordings Lectures
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Civil Rights Movements
  4. Government
  5. Guardian (New York, N.Y.)
  6. New Left
  7. Politics And Government
  8. Protest Movements
  9. Revolutions
  10. Vietnam War, 1961 1975

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