With Hitler defeated and Western values and institutions seemingly secure, it wasn’t long before, left-wing intellectuals in search of ‘big structural change’ began attacking them. They exploited the hedonism of the ‘swinging Sixties’ to push a big government, equal outcomes, ideology.
Socialists infiltrated campuses and workplaces pushing their anti-capitalist critiques. Throughout the Vietnam War they ramped up their offensive, preaching that capitalism and injustice were synonymous.
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