This founding document called for a «white fighting force» to be allied with the «Black Liberation Movement» and
other radical movements [5] to achieve «the destruction of US imperialism and achieve a classless world: world communism.»
While the recent upsurge of feminist activity in this country has indeed been a liberating one, its force has been chiefly emotional — personal, psychological and subjective — centered, like
the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on historical analysis of the basic intellectual issues which the feminist attack on the status quo automatically raises.1 Like any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present social institutions.
Brazilian writer - director João Moreira Salles intercuts his mother's movies of a 1966 group tour in China during the inception of the most radical phase of the Cultural Revolution with archival footage from three
other radical movements, all from 1968: The May uprisings in France; the brutal ending of the Prague Spring; and the brief rebellion in Brazil against the reigning military dictatorship.
Yet its alienation from
other radical movements, especially black liberation, and its recourse to a kind of «separatist» ideology — that talks about the oppression of women as more basic than any other form of oppression in a way that makes women a separate cause unrelated to other kinds of oppression — may be working its own kind of subtle social encapsulation.
Not exact matches
On the
other, The Nation describes the
movement in terms of
radical and sweeping revolution quite beyond anything usually depicted in the anti-homosexualist literature of the right: «But the gay nineties is not only about civil rights, tolerance, and legitimacy.
The
other British
movement (with American offshoots) is
Radical Orthodoxy, which gathers around John Milbank (in Lancaster for many years, followed by Cambridge, and now at the University of Virginia).
Indeed, the animal rights
movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most
radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and
other human afflictions.
He shows how the Tractarians (and
others) in the 1820s and 30s believed the Church to be in a condition of spiritual torpor, whereas after the split within the
movement between the so - called Xs and Zs in the wake of Tract 90 and the
radical takeover of The British Critic, the Zs (Newman's opponents) tried to create a picture of acontinuous stream of living High Church belief and devotion linking the 18th century Non-Jurors and Hutchinsonians to their own «Old High Church» segment of Tractarianism.
This concept was supported vigorously by important labor and left - wing Zionist groups, including the
radical Marxist Ha - Shomer Ha - Tzair kibbutz
movement, the Ahdut Ha - Avodah socialist party, the Poale Zion Smol (Left Workers of Zion) party, and the Mapam party (which at one time embraced the
other groups); and by such significant political figures as Haim Margalit - Kalvarisky (a member of the Zionist Executive), Bert Katznelson (a founder of Ahdut Ha - Avodah and of the Histradut federation of labor), and Henrietta Szold (the first woman member of the Zionist Executive and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America).
Other recent research by her has focused on the role of women in
radical movements in Northern Nigeria, the conflict in Yemen, and on civil society in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
Within the Student Islamist
movement, the more «moderate» elements and Persian speakers led by Burhanuddin Rabbani (who later became Afghan president) planned to infiltrate the army until the country was ready for an Islamist revolution, while the
radicals led by Hekmatyar and
others attempted to start military uprisings.
As a result, don't be surprised to find yourself rooting for the
radical Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and
other more confrontational elements of the
movement who employ civil disobedience as tactics.
Critical pedagogy draws on
radical democracy, anarchism, feminism, and
other movements that strive for what they describe as social justice.
French art critic Michel Tapié even declared the existence of «un art autre» (art of another kind)-- an art that entailed a
radical break with all traditional notions of order and composition, in a
movement toward something wholly «
other.»
His notion that
movement, sound and visual art could share a «common time» remains one of the most
radical aesthetic models of the 20th century and yielded extraordinary works by dozens of artists and composers, including Charles Atlas, John Cage, Morris Graves, Jasper Johns, Rei Kawakubo, Robert Morris, Gordon Mumma, Bruce Nauman, Ernesto Neto, Pauline Oliveros, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, David Tudor, Stan VanDerBeek, Andy Warhol and La Monte Young, among many
others.
The continuation of abstract expressionism, color field painting, lyrical abstraction, geometric abstraction, minimalism, abstract illusionism, process art, pop art, postminimalism, and
other late 20th - century Modernist
movements in both painting and sculpture continued through the first decade of the 21st century and constitute
radical new directions in those mediums.
1:18 pm ET — Artist Noah Fischer is discussing the
radical heritage of Cooper Union's Great Hall, including Lincoln's famous speech, the establishment of the NAACP, and important speeches in the women's suffrage
movement, and
other landmark moments.
Known for embracing risk and chance, Cunningham believed in the
radical notion that
movement, sound, and visual art could exist independently of each
other, coming together only during the «common time» of a performance.
By 1960
other movements with their own
radical ideas had emerged, and the New York School had turned into a disparate handful of old masters.
Rather than a
radical re-reading of an avant - garde
movement, the proposal amounted to thin stuff, and one that confused conceptualism with all sorts of
other things: the YBAs, Fluxus, the opacity of contemporary art and art writing in general.
Other early exponents of
radical change in the visual arts include proto Arte Povera artists: Antoni Tàpies and the Dau al Set
movement, Alberto Burri, Piero Manzoni, and Lucio Fontana and Spatialism.
Yet I do think that abstract expressionism and the
movements that reacted to it in the 60s attracted far more attention from the general public than the equally significant work of representational artists who were painting during that period, creating work that evolved naturally from earlier tradition where AbEx and
other later
movements appeared to be more
radical leaps.
The effect of the
radical environmental
movement's efforts to reduce fossil fuel production and use is to try to convince governments to create limits to growth where none currently exist
other than human ingenuity.
A few years ago, when I was first launched into becoming the amateur investigator of what's up with whatsupwiththat, and the flood of really well crafted (certainly not done by ignorant people) anonymous emails conveying little known proof of Obama's secret Islamitude, and
other lies that would damage Rush Limbaugh's reputation if he were to personally deliver them... Ah Say, Ah Say (Foghorn Leghorn accent) when I was first launched into all that, from reading prodigious comment - storms in many places, including judithcurry.com, but also invading more liberal venues, I concluded what we have here is less a
movement for anything, than a massively stroked and stoked «Great Liberal Hating and Baiting Cult», with a very big self - organizing component, but definitely nourished in all sorts of ways by the folks you can read about in Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the
Radical Right by Jane Meyer (best book yet of its class and I've read many).