Mr. Judt returned to Britain disabused and highly skeptical of the radical political currents swirling around him at Cambridge, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history from King's College in 1969.
In short, one might say that radical revolutionary currents are inspired by one unchanging project: the project of being a whole man, a will to live totally which Marx was the first to provide with scientific tactics.
He is noted for his synthesis of classical democracy with libertarian socialism and the radical currents in the new social movements.
Religious, totalitarian, radical evangelical currents run through the story and appear to question or perhaps mock the current system.
Since its articulation by Sabino Arana in the late 19th century, the more radical currents of Basque nationalism have demanded the right of self-determination and even independence.
Over the ensuing decade, The Democratic Review flourished as an excellent, up-to-date literary magazine as well as a political organ of the more radical currents within the Jacksonian coalition.
They essentially formed the core of modernist experimentation, and were part of radical intellectual currents in music and literature, as well.
Anarcho-communism developed out of radical socialist currents after the French revolution but was first formulated as such in the Italian section of the First International.
Schoenberg simply felt that the serious music of high culture operated on a different plane from other music, and radical currents had been sweeping through serious music for some time.
Their doctrines probably mixed with radical currents of Shī'a Islam, influencing them and giving rise to later powerful revolutionary-religious movements in the region.