[lbo-talk] question for those who remember the 70s

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Sep 2 14:56:41 PDT 2010


SA wrote:
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> On 9/2/2010 4:37 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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> Huh.
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> Man, the sixties sound pretty nice.

Joanna speaks of what was _fought_ for rather than necessarily achieved -- not an uncommon condition. And she describes fairly accurately what was, in various forms, fought for.

And it doesn't matter that many of those goals were badly formulated or contradictory -- the activity left its imprint on expectations -- though by the mid-decade those expectatins were being reformulated in practice to conservative ends. E.g., negative reaction to _corporate_ bureaucracy shifted to varius state bureaucracies.

I'm not certain of this, but her post, right or wrong, hardly deserves a Huh? And your next remark is merely empty.

Carrol



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