[lbo-talk] Left - Right 30 Year Itch

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Oct 4 10:07:46 PDT 2007


On Oct 4, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote:


> anyway, a student came to me after class and said that he had
> attended a lecture by some bloke who suggested that we may be
> heading for/be at the end of a 30 year swing to the right.... the
> point was this: 1968 was when the swing to the right started, and
> what uncle george, uncle dick and auntie connie have done is
> precipitate a swing (back) to the left. i found this quite an
> intriguing thesis, suggested that we have coffee and discuss it
> further.

Didn't Arthur Schlesinger come up with that idea, or at least popularize it?

Doug



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