And of course Marxian analysis took on renewed life» if, most often, in crudely vulgar
forms» in the various
liberationist struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, most notably in the anti-Vietnam War movement.
I was a leftist, a liberal, a
liberationist, yet here was a story that portrayed liberalism, in the
form of the Harvard professor Henry Rutledge, as moral disorder, and leftist liberationism, in the professor's students — one a black activist, one a Jesuit — as a posturing sham.