[lbo-talk] Identity wars, was fartback

[Jim Devine]

there's some parallel here with other historical dualities. While the
US student movement of the 1960s was anti-war, anti-racist,
environmentalist, edging toward anti-imperialist and anti-sexist,
etc., the Weimar German student movement of the late 1920s and early
1930s went in a completely different direction. (The old "god that
failed" folks made a big thing about the parallel, using the latter
movement to dis the former. But that's irrelevant,and self-serving.)

On 7/19/05, Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
> I agree, but I don't have to subscribe to the content or direction of
> Islamic fundamentalists to see some parallels. The Cubans revolutionary
> leadership were the disaffected bourgeois, intellectuals, lawyers,
> doctors, bureaucratic elites---the more advanced and advantaged.
> 
> While the goals or content of the various Muslim reactionary movements
> are different, the class (the sociological dynamics) involved is
> pretty similar: disaffected professionals, the more advanced and
> advantaged, often drawn from a westernized technocratic class.

-- 
Jim Devine
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" -- Richard Feynman