The Student Protest Movement

Abstract

“As one seeks to explain what moves these young people today, one is often perplexed by apparently contradictory tendencies. The movement is strongly characterized by the desire not to be understood. Another source of perplexity is the fact that the political activity, which receives so much attention, is at its heart non-political. Except for a very few, those who engage in political activity do so on the basis of an orientation to personal life, not political life. It is a personal moral quest, not a political vision, which is really characteristic of those who are politically involved.”