HISTORY: The continuing legacy of the 1960s*

The Sixties ushered in a cultural revolution which is still under way: almost, it seems, out of control. It took its name from the great upheavals which raged in Communist China, also in the late Sixties.While shamelessly parasitic upon the Chinese revolutionary rhetoric, street theatre and worse, the anti-intellectualism, and the attacks upon the sanctity of the family, and what remained of the social traditions and values of the Chinese people, the Cultural Revolution in the West drew upon dif…

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