The New Left cultural movement of the 1960s and early '70s condemned everything for which America stood. It achieved limited political success but brought about cultural changes that remain with us today because it faced little fundamental intellectual opposition. Ayn Rand opposed the New Left in her 1971 anthology of essays The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. Return of the Primitive is an expanded edition of that original book and contains Rand's two additional essays "Racism" and "Global Balkanization." Editor Peter Schwartz also includes three of his own analytical essays.