The Demagogic Process

Rexroth, an anarchist influential on the Beat movement, writes about the global conflict of the Vietnam war era, the internal politics of the USSR, and the composition of the student and Black power movements at the time- focusing on how they related to the established Left, the mainstream population, and "displaced" people.

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