You're not serious? Baldwin's ideas haven't stood the test of time.
The left-wing radicalism of the 60's fizzled out due a failure in the competition of ideas.
The left-wing radicalism of the 60's fizzled out due a failure in the competition of ideas.
baldwin and his contemporaries were influential to the civil rights movement, which had a concrete impact on improving the nation.
> The left-wing radicalism of the 60's fizzled out due a failure in the competition of ideas.
i don't think it was "the competition of ideas" that caused them to fizzle out. unless you consider state propaganda to be a part of that?
and i don't think it's fizzled out. the new left is the dominant mode of american leftism at the current moment in time.
Let's start with that.
The other arguments about systemic racism are the same arguments pushed by the radical left today, I'd hardly call it "widely accepted".