ABSTRACT
The neglected utopian aspect of the Movement in its re-development in the 1970s represents yet another confirmation of the thesis that the new left (NL) represents a continuity with the traditions of libertarian Socialism, and Anarchist thought. By bringing together a global environmental concern with the political tradition of the NL and the moral and nonviolent protest of the peace movement, ‘post-scarcity rebellion’ may yet represent the foundations of a future major revival. With renewed threat of a Third World War, ‘species interest’ and ‘individual interest’ were finally brought together again by the growing awareness of potential environmental catastrophe, at least amongst many Western radicals. Many utopian elements had survived the bad years after 1967 and 1968, and with the collapse of Students for a Democratic Society, there are signs of a recovery which ranges over sociological concerns, rural communalism, sex-role liberation and radical education projects.
