[gibrown]

> To the people downvoting me here: can you list some figures who have been protesting authoritarianism who are left-coded in contemporary American society?

Martin Luther King.

[dgb23]

And a few others with media attention from the top of my head:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Martin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

[commandlinefan]

He said contemporary American society. MLK died 53 years ago.

[woodruffw]

Are you intending to claim that the second half of the 20th century isn't contemporary?

I'm not a historian, but I've understood "contemporary" as a term that refers to events that have occurred in the lifetimes of active historians. Given that a decent chunk of the US's population was alive in 1968 and hasn't even retired yet, it probably fits neatly into that category.

[trutannus]

Right, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_history

"[..] a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present."