>Both these elements - a desperate impulse to escape from intolerable
>conditions, coupled with hope the future will be better - are present in
>every movement for social change, including those which arose during the
>Depression.
But the movements that arose in the 60s were the product of "good" times - that just weren't good enough. The best situation for the ruling class is when the masses are moderately nervous - when unemployment is high enough to assure labor discipline, but not so high as to risk economic or political problems, or so low as to cause workers to develop an attitude.
Doug