[lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is Dead)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Apr 22 08:55:58 PDT 2010


On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:37 AM, SA wrote:


> But my point is, if there hadn't first been a discrediting collapse,
> the rebound would have been much less likely to produce that kind of
> rebellion.

That kind, yes. But the long boom of the 1950s and 1960s produced its own kind of radicalism. And all the activism of the late 1990s came late in a long expansion.

What happened to political mobilization after the "recession" of 1937?

Doug



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