Volume 26, Number 5 · April 5, 1979
Home-grown Radicals
By C. Vann Woodward
The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism
by David DeLeon
Johns Hopkins University Press, 242 pp., $14.00
Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943
by James R. Green
Louisiana State University Press, 450 pp., $24.95
A decade or so ago it seemed to some—even to a few Frenchmen—that American radicalism was setting the pace, or was about to do so. Student risings of 1968 in various countries hailed the American model and exchanged representatives and slogans across the Atlantic. Jean-François Revel assured the world that 'the revolution of the twentieth century will take place in the United States. It is only there that it can happen. And it has already begun.' He went on to declare, 'It is the revolution of our time…. It therefore offers the only possible escape for mankind today.'[1]
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