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The Sydney Push was a predominantly left-wing intellectual subculture in Sydney from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. Well known associates of the Push include Jim Baker, John Flaus, Harry Hooton, Margaret Fink, Sasha Soldatow,〔A 1970s associate, subject of David Marr's obituary "(A spirit gone to another place )" ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 9 September 2006〕 Lex Banning, Eva Cox, Richard Appleton, Paddy McGuinness, David Makinson, Germaine Greer, Clive James, Robert Hughes, Frank Moorhouse, Robyn Davidson, and Lillian Roxon. From 1961 to 1962, poet Les Murray resided in Brian Jenkins's Push household〔Alexander Peter F. ''Les Murray: a Life in Progress'', Oxford University Press UK, 2000〕 at Glen Street, Milsons Point, which became a mecca for associates visiting Sydney from Melbourne and other cities. The Push operated in a pub culture and comprised a broad range of manual workers, musicians, lawyers, criminals, journalists and public servants as well as staff and students of Sydney University—predominantly though not exclusively in the Faculty of Arts. Rejection of conventional morality and authoritarianism formed their main common bond. From the mid-1960s, people from the New South Wales University of Technology (later renamed the University of New South Wales) also became involved. ==Academic contributors== Amongst the key intellectual figures in Push debates were philosophers David J. Ivison, George Molnar, Roelof Smilde, Darcy Waters and Jim Baker, as recorded in Baker's memoir ''Sydney Libertarians and the Push'', published in the libertarian ''Broadsheet'' in 1975.〔See Baker A J ("Sydney Libertarianism and the Push" ) or at ("Sydney Libertarians and the Push" ) on Prof. W L Morison memorial site〕 Other active people included psychologists Terry McMullen and Geoff Whiteman, educationist David Ferraro, June Wilson, Les Hiatt, Ian Bedford, Ken Maddock and Alan Olding, among many others listed in the article. An understanding of Sydney libertarian values and social theory can be obtained from their publications, a few of which are available online.〔(Articles and Essays of and by Sydney Libertarians )〕〔(Sydney Libertarianism ) at the Marxists Internet Archive〕 There are also interesting critical articles in the Arts Society's annual journal ''Arna'' by Baker〔Baker A. J. ''The Politics of 1984'' pp. 34–43, ''Arna'' (S.U. Arts Society, 1958)〕 and Molnar〔Molnar, George ''Zamyatin's "We"—a libertarian viewpoint'' pp. 11–20 , ''Arna'' (S.U. Arts Society, 1961)〕 whose essay on Zamyatin's ''We'' concluded: . . . Orwell spins out to its last conclusion the illusion that the fate of freedom depends mainly on the colour of the ruling party. "We", precisely because it presents its rebels as apolitical, as individualists if you wish, cuts through this falsehood. Zamyatin's superior social insight, although presented and presumably gained artistically and not by way of scientific analysis, consists first in his firm rejection of the rationality or finality of history and, second, in his recognition that anarchic protest against those in power, not the capture of power, is at the core of freedom. A representative collection of Sydney Libertarian essays was published by L. R. Hiatt in ''The Sydney Line'', printed in 1963 by the ''Hellenic Herald'', whose proprietor Nestor Grivas was a prominent non-academic Push personality and champion of sexual freedom. John Anderson, the Scottish-born Challis Professor of Philosophy at Sydney University from 1927 until his retirement in 1958, was seminal in the formation of Sydney Libertarianism of which, however, he vigorously disapproved. In 1951, a group of his disciples, led by Jim Baker, had formed a proactive faction which split Anderson's Free Thought Society. They asserted that it was natural and desirable for critical thought to engender commensurate action, the principle on which the Libertarian Society was launched. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sydney Push」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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