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Les données tirées d'carune enquête auprès de 471 des principaux militants et militantes du Québec et du Canada anglais pendant les années soixante confirment des hypothèses qui contredisent fortement les prédictions sur la nature des mouvements sociaux depuis 1960 basées sur la théorie des New Social Movements. l'auteur propose la construction d'carune nouvelle théorie postmarxiste des mouvements sociaux fondée sur la reconnaissance du fait que, depuis 1960, l'aile gauche des mouvements sociaux a continué d'carêtre une vraie gauche et non un nouveau genre de libéralisme.Data from a survey of 471 leading 1960s activists in Quebec and English Canada confirm hypotheses that strongly contradict predictions about the nature of post‐1960 movements derived from the New Social Movements theory. It is argued that a new approach to developing a post‐Marxist theory of social movements is needed, starting from a recognition that the politics of the left wing of post‐1960 movements are "new left," not "new liberal."

The conventional wisdom that today's movements are led by a section of the `new middle class' is really the old functionalist theory of (post)modernizing elites that denies class analysis. The `young adult nucleus' thesis is proposed as an alternative theory. The leading social forces in movements in affluent countries are intellectual radicals and `advanced elements' from groups that experience some form of exploitation, oppression or collective hurt. They are Gramscian intellectuals as opposed to professional intellectuals. They are people who took the `opportunity during socialization' when young adults to choose what often became a lifelong `activist career' for social justice.