POW's

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Mar 25 10:00:36 PST 2003


Mark Bennett wrote:


>I believe Carrol's analysis is accurate. The soldiers' revolt did much more
>to end the Vietnam war than the "vocal opposition" of the anti-war movement,
>which was effective primarily to the extent that it helped radicalize the
>G.I.s.

How can you separate all these things? The antiwar movement was inseparable from the "counterculture" - which I suppose is suspect by hardcore politicos because it involved what Judith Butler calls the "merely cultural" - and those were inseparable from the GI's rebellion. It was mass social indiscipline and it scared the hell out of conservatives, from Spiro Agnew to Irving Howe.

Doug



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