Old Left v. New Left

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What exactly do you mean by either term? This needs to be established before any meaningful discussion is possible, and it's as necessary (actually more so) with the former term as the latter. There were at least distinct political movements called the New Left (the best known of which needs no particular introduction, but another would be a very distinct circle of non (though in reality often ex) Communist Marxists in the 1960s; E.P. Thompson, Ralph Miliband, Raymond Williams and so on), but that's not the case with this supposed 'Old Left'. I question whether Tankies have much in common with Labourist social democrats (other than hostility towards Trots, obviously).