I think the Old Bolsheviks and The New Left (post-1968 “hippies”) are/were entirely different people. Consider how being gay in the Soviet Union meant 5 years GULAG.
On the other hand their attitude towards divorce and abortion (especially in the early days after the revolution) was very similar to that of the new left. Furthermore, their reasoning was that women were the oppressed proletariat of the family, which sounds remarkably like modern social justice rhetoric.
They wanted nothing of the hedonistic, permissive, autonomous, individualistic approaches of the New Left.
On the other hand, they were perfectly willing to work with the politically. And to this day the more readical elements of the new left believe the “good guys” won Vietnam. In fact members of the new left love supporting any strict Gnostics as long as they themselves aren’t currently being subject to them. Heck these days they tend to support Islamic conservative quasi-Gnostics for lack of any actual strict Gnostics to support.
On the other hand their attitude towards divorce and abortion (especially in the early days after the revolution) was very similar to that of the new left. Furthermore, their reasoning was that women were the oppressed proletariat of the family, which sounds remarkably like modern social justice rhetoric.
On the other hand, they were perfectly willing to work with the politically. And to this day the more readical elements of the new left believe the “good guys” won Vietnam. In fact members of the new left love supporting any strict Gnostics as long as they themselves aren’t currently being subject to them. Heck these days they tend to support Islamic conservative quasi-Gnostics for lack of any actual strict Gnostics to support.