[lbo-talk] Students was Re: The Necrosocial

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Nov 22 17:09:51 PST 2009


Eric Beck wrote:
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> Okay, thanks for laying your cards on the table. The entirety of your
> criticism is no more than a conservative critique of ungrateful
> students' indiscretions. In other words, the time-honored trope where
> one generation beats up on the younger one. Tres original.

I doubt that it will bother the students. In the summer of 1965 some of the "older generation" held a "Two-tier" conference on Vietnam at Ann Arbor. The 'top' tier was made up of 'experts' and their plan was to elaborate a "plan" for disengagment from Vietnam. (They were going to 'thoerize" for the anti-war movement as it were. Most, not all, of their meetings were closed to those not invited. The 'lower' tier (my terminilogy)consistee of a large number of small meetings and workshps in which one and all were free to attend. I never did hear again of the "Reprot" or whatever of the 'official' meetings. But I learned a lot about what was going on and various organizational efforts and tactics from several of the workshops, many of which were ortganized by SDS. Those informal gatherings were in a way the seedbed for the growing movement which was to emerge in the next couple of years.

Carrol



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