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Markin comment:
Looking over the material on this Website is one of the reasons that I recently noted that students today, and I can be corrected on this with some contrary evidence, do not have that grand world view about solving the major problems confronting the planet that we "old gezzers and gezzettes" did back in the days, the 1960s. We made many mistakes back then but avoiding the realities of the necessity of "big picture" solution(s) and that of the special duty to struggle against the "monster" required of those of us who were "living in the belly of the beast" here in America were not among them.
They didn't learn anything from the SDS.
ReplyDeleteA middle class group, with no specific program, will easily split.
Locally they are jumping between reformism and ultraleftism all the time.
Ren- You hit the nail on the head about the wide “mood” swings of the modern SDS. But if you think about it wasn’t your characterization also true of the old 1960s SDS. Early on with “Half The Way With LBJ” and middle class respectability and, later, when some elements like the “Weathermen, Weather Underground”, etc. led by Professor Ayers, Dohrn and others went over the edge in their righteous wrath against American imperialist only to fall back to that same middle class respectability. There is a lesson there for those who want to learn it. And I hope some among the young do want to learn it. Pronto.
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