[lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts (smashing windows)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jul 12 09:35:48 PDT 2005


Chuck0 wrote:


>The civil rights movement was somewhat successful because the state
>wanted to avoid the growing anger in communities which eventually
>erupted in urban inssurections. Placating the nonviolent wing of
>that movement was more palatable than having American cities burned
>to the groung and a braoder revolution breaking out.

The issue of burning cities didn't hit until the mid-60s. The civil rights movement was already well underway. There was no inkling of a "broader revolution" in 1957 or 1962.

You could argue - and many have - that competition with the USSR for the affections of the Third World made desegregation a major priority for the US ruling class in the 1950s and early 1960s. The USSR was created by a distinctly non-anarchist revolution.

Doug



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