社会时尚的迁演常常以让人瞠目结舌的方式展开。在1980年代,“左”曾经是个令人避之惟恐不及的字眼,通过国家意识形态与知识分子的协同作战,“左”遭到了不遗余力的批判,直至被推上历史的审判台。但这本身已成历史了。伴随1980年代——一个对改革、对西方充满企盼与想象的“文化浪漫主义”时代的逝去,人们对“左”不那么谈之色变了,思想界早已重新拾起这个字眼,分离出一些可供利用的资源。西方马克思主义(学术圈的行话叫“西马”)一直是知识界长盛不衰的热门话题;“新左派”旗下聚集起一批 Social fashion often move in a stunning way to start. In the 1980s, the “Left” used to be a word that was avoided or feared. Through the coordinated operation of state ideology and intellectuals, “Left” was spared no effort to be criticized until it was put on the historical trial platform. But this itself has become history. With the passing of the 1980s, an era of “cultural romanticism” full of expectations and imagination about reform and revolution, people have changed their discourse about the “left” so that the mindset has already picked up the word and separated some Resources available. Western Marxism (the jargon of academic circles is called “West Malaysia”) has always been a thriving hot topic in the intellectual circles; a group of “New Leftists” have gathered