Twin Self-Delusions. The Fate of Counterculture in the West and in Eastern Europe
Twin Self-Delusions. The Fate of Counterculture in the West and in Eastern Europe

Summary/Abstract: Theodore Roszak describes in his 1968 manifesto The Making of A Counterculture two largely different components of the spirit of the 60s: the civil rights, anti-racist, participatory democracy movement, working inside as well as outside constitutional frameworks, and possessing a certain neo-Marxist theoretical orientation, and the psy­chedelic liberation movement looking for a complete dismantling of every form of theory and holding a Millennial idea of freedom1. In Roszak's view, these two were connected by their opposition to a common enemy, the technocratic society, and by a similarity in the general style of their existential approach, called by Roszak perso­nalism.

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