Ungrateful for being the luckiest generation in world history, sixties New Leftists agonized about how affluence and security created "empty human values" and, worse still, competitive individualism. To be materially comfortable meant to be empty and selfish. And because believers themselves were among those who were materially comfortable, they became plagued by guilt, which they attempted to assuage by working toward a solution that would rid the world—and themselves—of the system that gave them all the luxurious time to think up everything they hated about it.
(Jamie Glazov, United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror [Los Angeles: WND Books, 2009], 40-1 [endnote omitted])
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 