Lefty despair

[Cliff Staples]

When, in the spring of 1970, a bunch of us walked out of classes at my high 
school to protest the invasion of Cambodia, I did so in no small part 
because a friend's slightly older brother told me that some college kids 
from Stony Brook were coming over to help, and that there would be bra-less 
females among them.   Such were the roots of my political consciousness 
raising.

Raising my feminist consciousness appears to be a lifelong project.

Cliff


>It is noteworthy that during periods when the left was most
>successful in the US, there existed broader "countercultures"
>which provided people with relatively enjoyable experiences
>linked to political activism.  For example back in the 1930s
>and 1940s the CPUSA functioned within a broader Popular
>Front culture which encompassed a thriving literary culture
>and a thriving popular culture which included within its scope
>popular entertainment figures like Frank Sinatra (subject
>of an article in the latest issue of Science & Society).
>
>The same also applied for the 1960s New Left.  No doubt
>much of the appeal that groups like SDS and SNCC enjoyed
>back in the '60s was that they were often the places where
>the "coolest" people on campus were to be found.
>
>Jim F.
>
> >
> > Doug
> >
>
>
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