Is The Long March (2000) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 9 / 100 (very CHUD (right-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Roger Kimball, 2000.
20 votes: 5% WOKE, 95% CHUD.
Why: Critique of 1960s counterculture and academia
"Others may think of the 1960s as The Last Good Time, but Kimball has no patience with such nostalgia. He sees this decade as a seedbed of excess and moral breakdown. He argues that the radical assaults on "the System" that took place then still define the way we live now - with intellectually debased schools and colleges, morally chaotic sexual relations and family life, and a degraded media and popular culture.". "How did we get from there to here? In the late 1960s and early 1970s, after fantasies of immediate political revolution faded, many student radicals urged their followers to begin "the long march through the institutions." Radical philosopher Herbert Marcuse characterized this a…