[lbo-talk] Subject: Re: the political theater of the repressive state apparatus

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Nov 12 14:53:51 PST 2011


On Nov 12, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Nicholas Roberts wrote:


> lets not forget Reagan really got his start by smashing hippies in Berkeley

These are very different times. The hippie thing came at the end of a long boom. Wages were rising for decades. Now, everyone's kind of miserable. There's not much of a generation gap, and alienation is a mass phenomenon. The eras just aren't comparable.



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