“There is a significant change in the leftist-liberal ideology of today, a difference between the old left and the new — not in essential goals or fundamental motives, but in their forms …” Ayn Rand, Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

In her article, ‘The Left: Old and New’, Ayn Rand details the ways in which the New Left differs from the old. She notes that “three fundamentals remain untouched: mysticism-altruism-collectivism”, and identifies what has changed from the old left to the new, drawing on examples.

In this Meetup, questions such as the following are explored:
How did the New Left of Rand’s era differ from the old left? What prompted this change?
Is the political left that we see today different from the left of one, or two, or three decades ago? What has changed? What has stayed the same?