Red Emma’s

The sixties were a time when radical movements learned to embrace twentieth-century Marxism; in 1968, protests against capitalism, racism, and imperialism erupted around the world. Fifty years later, Max Elbaum, author of Revolution in the Air, discusses what the resistance of today can learn from the legacies of Lenin, Mao and Che.Taking issue with the idea of a division between an early “good sixties” and a later “bad sixties,” Max Elbaum is particularly concerned to reclaim the lessons of the new communist movement for today’s activists who, like their sixties’ predecessors, are coming of age at a time when the Left lacks mass support and is fragmented along racial lines.