--- title: "11 New Left Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 11 New Left quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best New Left sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/lester-bangs-9750_always-believe_i-ve-always-believed-the-new-left-is-ran_589958.jpg" --- > [I've always believed the New Left is rank.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lester-bangs/i-ve-always-believed-the-new-left-is-rank/) [Lester Bangs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lester-bangs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/lester-bangs-9750_always-believe_i-ve-always-believed-the-new-left-is-ran_589958.jpg) > [I don't think there is anything new left for me in choreography.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/farah-khan/i-don-t-think-there-is-anything-new-left-for-me-in-choreography/) [Farah Khan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/farah-khan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/458/farah-khan-6293_anything_i-don-t-think-there-is-anything-new-left_628534.jpg) > [By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-gutfeld/by-silencing-speech-the-new-left-makes-life-more-dangerous-by-leaving/) [Greg Gutfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-gutfeld/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf1/greg-gutfeld-1129_communication_by-silencing-speech-the-new-left-makes-l_2955835.png) > [The worst thing that can happen to the New Left in this country is to turn the struggle into a military struggle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-dellinger/the-worst-thing-that-can-happen-to-the-new-left-in-this-country-is-to/) [David Dellinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-dellinger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/david-dellinger-10905_country_the-worst-thing-that-can-happen-to-the-n_1898930.jpg) > [“stars of what I like to call the New New Left, a conglomerate of internet-age liberals who had managed to steal a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jared-yates-sexton/stars-of-what-i-like-to-call-the-new-new-left-a-conglomerate-of/) [Jared Yates Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jared-yates-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/629/jared-yates-sexton-23407_quote_stars-of-what-i-like-to-call-the-new-new_2009061.jpg) > [“In effect, by rejecting high-tech socialism and substituting a vision of low-tech, egalitarian socialism, this new Left strategy also resolved to quote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-r-c-hicks/in-effect-by-rejecting-high-tech-socialism-and-substituting-a-vision/) [Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-r-c-hicks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_dreams_in-effect-by-rejecting-high-tech-sociali_1639232.jpg) > [There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bork/there-is-no-single-grand-strategy-just-as-the-new-left-abandoned-an/) [Robert Bork](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bork/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9c/robert-bork-16437_abandoned_there-is-no-single-grand-strategy-just-a_2480037.jpg) > [“Still, in summing up the situation, we must not forget that the New Left expresses certain truths and truisms and provides us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/still-in-summing-up-the-situation-we-must-not-forget-that-the-new/) [Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cb/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn-1946_europe_still-in-summing-up-the-situation-we-mus_2500555.jpg) > [“The postmodern left gets its particular brand of egalitarianism from the New Left of the 1960s. It was then that neo-Marxism and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-r-holmes/the-postmodern-left-gets-its-particular-brand-of-egalitarianism-from/) [Kim R. Holmes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-r-holmes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/347/kim-r-holmes-34917_marxist_the-postmodern-left-gets-its-particular_3024317.jpg) > [“The New Left in the 1960s was obsessed with consciousness raising. Saul Alinsky, a mentor to Obama and Hillary, devoted a large…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinesh-d-souza/the-new-left-in-the-1960s-was-obsessed-with-consciousness-raising/) [Dinesh D'Souza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinesh-d-souza/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/dinesh-d-souza-2242_black-lives-matter_the-new-left-in-the-1960s-was-obsessed-w_1901844.jpg) > [ “\[W\]hat is historically new is the alliance with the cultural left. Back in the 1960s, many economically minded New Deal liberals and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-r-holmes/w-hat-is-historically-new-is-the-alliance-with-the-cultural-left-back/) [Kim R. Holmes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-r-holmes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3aa/kim-r-holmes-34917_democratic-party_w-hat-is-historically-new-is-the-allianc_316769.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/new-left/#itemlist", "name": "New Left Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I've always believed the New Left is rank.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lester Bangs" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lester-bangs/i-ve-always-believed-the-new-left-is-rank/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/lester-bangs-9750_always-believe_i-ve-always-believed-the-new-left-is-ran_589958.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/lester-bangs-9750_always-believe_i-ve-always-believed-the-new-left-is-ran_589958.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/lester-bangs-9750_always-believe_i-ve-always-believed-the-new-left-is-ran_589958.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I've always believed the New Left is rank.” — Lester Bangs", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't think there is anything new left for me in choreography.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Farah Khan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/farah-khan/i-don-t-think-there-is-anything-new-left-for-me-in-choreography/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/458/farah-khan-6293_anything_i-don-t-think-there-is-anything-new-left_628534.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/458/farah-khan-6293_anything_i-don-t-think-there-is-anything-new-left_628534.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/458/farah-khan-6293_anything_i-don-t-think-there-is-anything-new-left_628534.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't think there is anything new left for me in choreography.” — Farah Khan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. 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It was then that neo-Marxism and other radical movements transformed the radical politics of America into something entirely new. The focus shifted from economics to culture. Old Marxist categories of class conflict were picked up and transformed into struggles over racial and gender identity and sexual politics.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kim R. 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Saul Alinsky, a mentor to Obama and Hillary, devoted a large part of his training seminars to consciousness raising. Today Black Lives Matter and other left-wing groups routinely conduct consciousness-raising workshops as part of their protest training. All of this is a replacement of Marx’s notion of historical inevitability with the recognition that people don’t agitate of their own accord; their grievances have to be created or at least interpreted for them, and they have to be stirred up to get off their butts and take action.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dinesh D'Souza" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinesh-d-souza/the-new-left-in-the-1960s-was-obsessed-with-consciousness-raising/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/dinesh-d-souza-2242_black-lives-matter_the-new-left-in-the-1960s-was-obsessed-w_1901844.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/dinesh-d-souza-2242_black-lives-matter_the-new-left-in-the-1960s-was-obsessed-w_1901844.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/dinesh-d-souza-2242_black-lives-matter_the-new-left-in-the-1960s-was-obsessed-w_1901844.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The New Left in the 1960s was obsessed with consciousness raising. 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Philosophically there is not much daylight between Sanders and the hard-core cultural warriors of the post-modern left. The same is true for Hillary Clinton. She, in fact, tries to appeal to both sides at the same time. She sells herself not only as a postmodernist feminist candidate who will be the first female president of the United States, but as a classic fighter for the economically downtrodden. The fusion has been the strength of her candidacy, because is represents the broadest appeal to all the constituents of the Democratic Party.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kim R. 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