Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:37 AM, SA wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> What happened to political mobilization after the "recession" of 1937?
And what happened to political mobilization after the slump of 1974? Politics had been seriously injured by the McGovern campaign, but it was that slump that put "the '60s" down for good.
Carrol