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identify paign. throughout history For Thompson and the 'old new left' the neutralist CND was a formative experience. 'new' left, their first mass campaign was the militant anti-imperialist Vietnam Solidarity CamStrategy never really did tation Gramsci.
Thompson's attention of every socialist.
Anderson gives an account of the political formation of the core of the NLR team. Unlike the 'old new left', its first major political intervention was not the neutralist Campaign for but the militant anti-imperialist Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.
Inevitably they were forced to confront the political ideas of Trotskyism, and the history. of the Communist movement, which the old new left Thus it was forced into a political confron with the peaceful road strategy, , and towards an elaboration of the revolutionary strategy of Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, and A brief review of this character can hardly summarise adequately the full scope and depth of the debate that has been set in train, and which has hardly been concluded.
The Poverti of Theory reverberated around the academic left, apparently carrying all before it. Anderson has done the whole of the socialist movement a service in taking this debate so explicitly and rigorously to its political conclusions.
The debate is not over; Perry Anderson makes clear that he regards his conclusions as . But for the provisional and subject to rectification. But it is a debate which transverses all the fundamental issues of Marxism in our time. It deserves the Socialist Challenge 22 May 1980
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