ABSTRACT
The emergence of massive and militant factions of blacks and youth to some extent gave the lie to the proposition of an ‘end of ideology’. The ‘two souls’ of Marxism were in tension, not only within the Marxian system, but reproduced contrasting aspects of the actual traditions of the organized Left; and it was a tension that new left (NL) theorists searching for reformulation seemed, at first, aware of. The NL had ingredients of an original ideological system, which was evolving steadily with Movement experience, whereas the Marxists had arrived with a ready-made and comprehensive orthodoxy – albeit a dated one. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, critics and commentators used the term Anarchist to describe part or all of the NL. The libertarian Marxism is obviously often closer to Anarchism than to the official Marxist movements, and closer to ‘revisionist’ theories developed later, than to much in ‘orthodox’ Marxist thought.
