If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left by Out Of PrintMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The difference is that my interpretation presupposes the good intentions and psychological soundness of those involved (when I think other-wise, as in a few instances, I indicate as much). One need not have been suffering from any psychological disturbance to have been ap-palled by the prospect of nuclear war, or the conduct of the Vietnam War...
Resistance to something was the law of New England nature; the boy looked out on the world with the instinct of resistance; for numberless generations his predecessors had viewed the world chiefly as a thing to be reformed, filled with evil forces to be abolished, and they saw no reason to suppose that they had wholly succeeded in the abolition; the duty was unchanged. That duty implied not only resistance to evil, but hatred of it. ... Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
-The Education of Henry Adams
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