〕 Sections of the New Left rejected involvement with the labor movement and Marxism's historical theory of class struggle,〔Jeffrey W. Coker. ''Confronting American Labor: The New Left Dilemma''. Univ of Missouri Press, 2002〕 although others gravitated to variants of Marxism like Maoism. In the United States, the movement was associated with the Hippie movement and anti-war college-campus protest movements including the Free Speech Movement. While formed in opposition to the "Old Left" Democratic Party, groups composing the New Left gradually became central players in the Democratic coalition.〔
==Historical origins==
The origins of the New Left have been traced to several factors. Prominently, the confused response of the Communist Party of the USA and the Communist Party of Great Britain to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 led some Marxist intellectuals to develop a more democratic approach to politics, opposed to what they saw as the centralised and authoritarian politics of the pre-war leftist parties. Those Communists who became disillusioned with the Communist Parties due to their authoritarian character eventually formed the "new left", first among dissenting Communist Party intellectuals and campus groups in the United Kingdom, and later alongside campus radicalism in the United States and elsewhere.〔Michael Kenny ''The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin'' London: Lawrence & Wishart〕 The term "nouvelle gauche" was already current in France in the 1950s, associated with ''France Observateur'', and its editor Claude Bourdet, who attempted to form a third position, between the dominant Stalinist and social democratic tendencies of the left, and the two Cold War blocs. It was from this French "new left" that the "First New Left" of Britain borrowed the term.〔Hall, Stuart ("Life and Times of the First New Left" ), ''New Left Review'', 61, January–February 2010.〕
The German-Jewish critical theorist Herbert Marcuse is referred to as the "Father of the New Left". He rejected the theory of class struggle and the Marxist concern with labor. According to Leszek Kołakowski, Marcuse argued that since "all questions of material existence have been solved, moral commands and prohibitions are no longer relevant". He regarded the realization of man's erotic nature as the true liberation of humanity, which inspired the utopias of Jerry Rubin and others. Another prominent New Left thinker, Ernst Bloch, believed that socialism would prove the means for all human beings to become immortal and eventually create God.〔, quoting ''Dans Prinzip Hoffnung'' pp. 1380–1628.〕
The writings of sociologist C. Wright Mills, who popularized the term New Left in a 1960 open letter,〔(Letter to the New Left by C. Wright Mills 1960 )〕 would also give great inspiration to the movement. Mills' biographer, Daniel Geary, writes that his writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s."〔(''Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought'' ) By Daniel Geary, p. 1.〕

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