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

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Nov 12 16:29:16 PST 2011


The first "hippies" who moved into Haight-Ashbury were mature adults. The wife of J.P. Cannon (of the SWP), noting the people moving into that area, predicted the coming of a women's movement. (I got this from the former SWP member who had the conversation with her.) Then the press pulled a stunt analogous to what they did to the Panthrs: they 'recruited' for them by a false description, and drop-out teenagers began to flood in. The "hippie" movement, in other words, was NOT, to begin with, a youth movement.

Carrdol



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