Todd Gitlin
Todd Alan Gitlin (January 6, 1943 – February 5, 2022) was an American sociologist, political activist and writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He wrote about the mass media, politics, intellectual life, and the arts for both popular and scholarly publications.
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Quotes about Gitlin
[edit]- Нe had made a transition that others had not, from revolutionary and radical politics to a more practical politics, a sort of left wing of the possible.
- He was fiercely independent in his thinking, and although he grew up among the New Left, and remained sympathetic to many of its critiques and aspirations...
- He was particularly critical of the violent protest tactics of the Weather Underground.
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