...Matthew Charles; Howard Eiland Although it is well known that Walter Benjamin played a leading role in the antebellum German Youth Movement, withdrawing from the presidency of the Berlin Independent Students Association and from other reformist activities only with the onset of World War I...

... of the two movements is ascribed to certain key differences in their demographics and strategies. While the New Left took shape as a youth movement, the shestidesiatniki represented a generation that had been through World War II and identified with the reforms undertaken from within the Soviet government...

... and to identify their cryptic nature with his traumatic break from Gustav Wyneken and the tragic failures of the youth movement. This involves, on the one hand, an inversion of his early Nietzschean influences into a political anti-Nietzscheanism, one that this essay explores through the figures of freedom...

... Community (Die Freie Schulgemeinde), from which he was forced to retire in 1910. He exerted a decisive influence on the antebellum German Youth Movement through his lec- ture tours and writings—in particular, his book Schule und Jugendkultur (1913). He over- saw the running of several journals...

...John Beverley Representation of the period of armed struggle in Latin America, which extends from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s, has been dominated by a paradigm of disillusion that equates the armed struggle as a political strategy with an excess of youthful idealism or voluntarism. Waning...

... of the antebellum German Youth Movement at both universities. The youth movement was entering its most intensive phase in the autumn of 1913, with national conferences at Breslau and Kas- sel in central Germany and with the spreading popularity of the so- called Sprechsaal (discussion hall), a lecture...

... of education in Germany between 1890 and 1933, and on the role of boarding schools, see Cauvin 1971, esp. chap. 2. 4. Concerning Benjamin’s involvement with the German Youth Movement and his rela- tionship with Wyneken, from a historical viewpoint primarily, see Utley 1979, 1999; Ham 2007; Wohlfarth 1992...

... leading up to World War I, when he was in his first semesters of university study and passionately involved in what we call today the Ger- man Youth Movement, which he considered in essential respects a move- ment for educational reform.1 Decisively integrated into the Benjaminian discourse...

... the components and the strategies of the movement. There are four components of the opposition. One is the youth. They are politicized young people, more than millionone organized, which is not at all a small number. They are against the social and economic sys- tem. To claim...

... at the time of his active involve- ment with the antebellum German Youth Movement (two years before the composition of the language essay) is exemplary: make educational reform the lever to meaningful social change.14 Encourage children everywhere, from an early age, to think and to question philosophically...

... of their instigators, Benjamin always remained ambivalent toward such mirages of collectivization. This ambivalence can be traced to his early experiences within the youth movement, before the outbreak of World War I. His first texts, often written under the pseudo- nym Ardor, reveal his passionate...

..., workers’ rights, and a general critique of late capital– corporatist practices that the sixties’ youth movement touched only at the edges. While it is too soon to read these striking occurrences in any defini- tive way, or too early yet to declare them victorious in any sense beyond their successful...

... could do worse than pointing to his enduring interest in pedagogy. From his earliest metaphysical articles and speeches written for the Jugendkulturbewegung, the “youth culture movement,” to his later materialist writings on proletarian children’s theater and Brecht’s communist “behaviorism...

...Bécquer Seguín This introduction briefly provides the context of the Great Recession in Spain, which spurred one of the largest protests movements in the country's history. Known locally as the 15M and internationally as the indignados movement, the occupation of plazas in the spring and summer...

... meaning or political ends. I apologize in advance for the rhetorical overkill here, but it gets us right to the point: the kind of case made by Mahmood for her pious women could be made as easily for, say, a fascist youth movement. From the perspective of the participants, a fascist youth movement...

... appear at the present moment, they increasingly have become the basis for a surge of political resistance on the part of many youth, intellectuals, labor unions, educators, and other activists and social movements.100 Under such circumstances, it is time to remind ourselves that collective problems...

... of intergenerational disharmony, among other features of description that we may adduce, then the era can hardly be said to have been unique in that regard. But just as the global youth movement of the time bespoke the distinctive political engagement of that generation born in the shadows of Auschwitz, racial...

... reigned roughly from 1999 to his ousting in 2011. Clover ( 2016 : 267–306) attributes the post-Surkov illiberal turn to the increasing gravity of the violence of Kremlin-backed nationalist street gangs, from Dugin's more mild Eurasian Youth Movement to the more extreme Russian Image. 27. Dugin...

... circumstance of thousands of youth, there was emerging in the contestation a set of core social demands that were rapidly fixing a political horizon. The Social Protest Movement The masses, whose numbers were steadily growing, responded to the usual violent antiriot measures...

... a culmination of the metapolitical radicalism that motivated Benjamin’s participation in the antebellum German youth movement and his high-minded­ protest against the conformism of school and family, that is, against the philistine rule of his own social class. But in place of the Tol- stoyan ethic...