Dissent’s editors asked a number of leading writers and intellectuals of the left to respond to the following questions: “Nineteen sixty-eight was one of the most tumultuous years in the history of the modern left. In this, its fortieth-anniversary year, we ask, What is living, what is dead, and what is hobbling and wheezing, in the many-faceted, transcontinental legacy of ’68? Please don’t reminisce (or don’t only reminisce) or recount your personal engagements. Tell us instead what might be learned from ’68 for the future of the left. What did ’68ers get right? What did they get wrong? How is knowledge of their successes and failures useful to us today?”

Marshall Berman, Robin Blackburn, Mitchell Cohen, Ralf Fuecks, Vivan Gornick, Michael Kazin, Enrique Krauze, Lillian B. Rubin, Christine Stansell, and Michael Walzer.

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