FW: The anti-imperialism of fools

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jun 18 07:38:13 PDT 2002


Chuck Munson wrote:


>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>>
>> At 06:28 PM 6/17/2002 -0400, Doug wrote:
>>
>> >Oh yeah? So why are so many of today's activists the offspring of 60s
>> >activists?
>>
>> Perhaps because so many 60s activists became respectable members of the
>> establishment.
>
>We all know that this claim isn't true. Only a few activists sold out.

But that's not the way it seemed in The Big Chill! Better to defend land rapers than real rapists, and all that.

A lot of those activists became public interest lawyers, union organizers, radical preachers, politicized academics, and people with ordinary jobs who make lots of trouble in their spare time. There so much a part of the American political landscape that it's hard to notice them. Evidently Wojtek has overlooked them.

Doug



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