"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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