New Left

A radical movement of the 1960s and 1970s. New Leftists opposed the military-industrial complex and involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War ; they urged more public attention to conditions of black people and the poor. New Leftists were less theoretical than communists and generally did not admire the Soviet Union . But many of them were interested in Maoism , and they spoke strongly for “participatory democracy.” ( See sit-ins .)