This is absurd. The Vietnam antiwar movement at its height included broad sections of the working class and the oppressed nationalities. The Chicano Moratorium was a powerful component of the antiwar movement and Martin Luther King Jr. made opposition to the war a central part of his activity in his final year of life. Some surmise that his antiwar activity had more to do with his assassination than civil rights activity.
>I think Nathan is correct linking the steady decline of the progressive
>power with the ascent of the me-generation of the baby boomers. They
>protested mainly because they did not want to give their privileged life
>style to fight in Vietnam, not because they opposed the war. When not
>threatened by the draft, they cheered the televised Persian Gulf war from
>the privacy of their living rooms and suburan drinking holes.
More nonsense. People who became antiwar activists were the most politically conscious people in the population. When you joined an antiwar committee, you would have probably already read Bernard Fall, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky et al. You are perhaps confused with people like Bill Clinton who had nothing much in common with the people I worked with.
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>PS. From what I heard from a historian friend of mine, the only anti-war
>movement that really mattered was the opposition to the war within the
>military itself, that left the army deeply divided and demoralized.
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Poor comprehension of history from your historian friend. The ranks of the military would never had courage to speak out against the war unless millions of students and trade unionists had preceded them.
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)