> Christian Parenti had a great piece in a Baffler from around 2000 on
> just that, but I can't find my copy now. It was a time of wildcat
> strikes. They had to call in the national guard at one point to
> deliver the mail. Workers were sabotaging assembly lines. Around the
> world, OPEC was leading the charge for global redistribution. The
> U.S. had lost in Vietnam. "Inflation" was in part an economic
> phenomenon, but also a sense that the bourgeoisie was losing control.
I gave away all my Bafflers except that one, because it reads like a document that slipped through a wormhole from an alternate universe.
-- Andy