
Return of the Primitive
The Anti-Industrial Revolution
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Bernadette Dunne
In the 1960s and early '70s, the most prominent, vocal cultural movement was the New Left, a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for: individualism, material wealth, science, technology, capitalism.
While the New Left achieved limited political success, it brought about vast cultural changes that remain with us to this day. The reason is that while its representatives faced some political opposition, they faced little-to-no fundamental intellectual opposition.
Ayn Rand was the exception. In her essays from this period, anthologized in The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, she opposed the New Left as no one else did. The audience for the book, she wrote, is "all those who are concerned about college students and about the state of modern education" and who are seeking "a voice of reason to turn to".
In her essays, Ayn Rand identified the essential evils of the New Left and their cause. Where most viewed the New Left and its violent college protests, its worship of untouched nature, and its orgiastic mob celebrations as some sort of inexplicable, youthful rebellion against the "establishment", Ayn Rand identified these "rebels" as in fact dutiful, consistent practitioners of the ideas taught to them by their teachers.
Return of the Primitive is an expanded edition of The New Left. It features the entire contents of the original edition authorized by Ayn Rand, plus two of her other essays, "Racism" and "Global Balkanization", which are highly relevant to today's campuses and world. Additionally, it features three essays written after her death by Peter Schwartz, analyzing some of the ideologies that the New Left helped spawn, such as multiculturalism and environmentalism.
For those who seek to understand the state of American culture today, Return of the Primitive is required reading.
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The narrator occasionally repeats the last sentence. This seems to be an editing error. It happens infrequently enough to be a minute annoyance rather than an impediment to enjoying the book.
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Great book, but audible needs edits
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We are now repeating the past, important read!
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Berandette Dunne's voice is fine but she repeats sentences in many parts of the book. I think she was working on voice inflections, but the editing left both recordings in. At first I thought it must be for emphasis, but as I got further into the book I realized this was not the case. Blackstone Audio is usually better at proofing than this. It was a bit disappointing.
I debated what rating to give with the stars because the subject matter really needs to be heard. But it would be nice if the edits were revisited. :-)
Love the content, narration not up to par.
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