As for "the 60s," I was in SDS and went to big demos. Most of the people there were on a protest picnic. They didn't read Marx. I had barely read Marx myself. The radical edges of the time -- SDS and SNCC -- motivated a basically liberal mass activism, partly with salient criticism of the system, and partly by the power of negative example.
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