Dissenting Big Time: E.P. Thompson, C. Wright Mills and Making the First New Left
by Bryan D. Palmer
Few figures loom larger in the making of the first, late 1950s, New Left than E.P. Thompson and C. Wright Mills. Both were big. Both fit uneasily, to say the least, in the company of any established intelligentsia.
In their capacity for confrontation and in their influence on how Leftists of the late 1950s and early 1960s struggled to break free of orthodoxy and the straightjackets of conventional analytic conformity, Thompson, the historian, and Mills the social philosopher/ sociologist, provide unrivalled and lasting legacies.
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