>... I see nothing particularly progressive about the 60s generation.
> No responsibility, no ideas... nothing...
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It marched against the Vietnam war and in favour of liberation struggles in
Africa and Latin America, the US civil rights movement, equal rights for
women and gays, the mass uprisings against bureaucracy in Czechoslovakia and
Gaullism in France, the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation,the
Northern Irish resistance to the British occupation, the ANC and the
movement to free Mandela in South Africa, restrictions on artistic
expression, free speech, and political rights, nuclear disarmament, trade
union rights, protection of the environment, penal reform, etc.
I would describe it as "progressive".