Baby-boomers bear responsibility? Huh? It was a mythology to think that anyone or any group by virtue of its birth period was/is/could be the revolutionary agent.
It really is the economy, not that you're stupid. But it was the upheaval in southern agriculture, the needed for mechanization based on the penetration of industrial capital that set the whole thing in motion, not the conjugal proclivities of returning soldiers.
Industrial evolution, and production cannot go forward without thoroughly overhauling relations between city and countryside, a truth proved in the failure of the Spanish empire and the changes in Mexico preceding and coincident with Nafta.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 1:07 PM Subject: Re: #103
> >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> >
> >Carl Remick wrote:
> >
> >>Hey, man, I was jes' talking 'bout my generation! As Easy Rider put it:
> >>"We blew it."
> >
> >Compared to what? Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation? The Lost Generation?
> >Xers? Gen Y? Gen A'?
> >
> >Yeah, I know it's fun to dis the 60s as a time of indulgence and
stupidity
> >and failure to stop the war machine. But most of those things that
Chomsky
> >says makes the U.S. a more civilized place now than 40 years ago started
in
> >the 60s, with folks in our cohort: feminism, Stonewall, the environmental
> >movement, distrust of the system of imperial lies. "Vietnam syndrome"
> >inhibited the U.S. ruling class for years. Lots of younger people took up
> >the fight in subsequent years, but why be so pessimistic?
>
> During the sixties, the air was electric with the sense that a great
social
> transformation was possible and indeed at hand. Step one, stop the war!
> Step two, socialism! Yes, the Aquarians had a rendezvous with history to
> end all rendezvous! And what happened? Forty years later we're living in
a
> completely militarized society that's more plutocratic than anything seen
> since the Gilded Age. Boomers bear heavy responsiblity for this fiasco.
>
> Carl
>
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