The Failures of the New Left

The new left fails miserably because it's not connected to a drive train of class struggle. It's been detached by mass ownership and mass media, he says. "They've got the fruits of everything at their fingertips, but what they have inherited is this finely calibrated moral sense that seeks to push beyond consumption" The post war suburbanization of the country is the necessary social terrain where media can intervene and redefine human subjectivity, he adds.