"Meet the New New Left: bold, fun, and stupid, " in TNR

John Kawakami johnk at cyberjava.com
Sat Apr 22 10:38:49 PDT 2000


This point about the anarchists (or other protesters) being mostly affluent is probably true, but the overall progressive scene is probably a lot more global and a lot more available than it has been in a long time. Within the middle class, there are classes, and it was only the upper middle classes that were able to mobilize in the colleges. Just from what I've seen in person, the demographic is opening up, and kids outside of the colleges are getting networked and involved.

The internet is part of the network.

As "elitist" as the internet supposedly is, it's still only a few hundred dollars a year. Going to college is thousands of dollars a year, if you go to a public college. Buying into politics is even more expensive and laborious.



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