[lbo-talk] [PSN-CS] the soc mov'ts class outline

[Thomas Volscho]

This discussion reminded me of a recent book on the Oklahoma City
tragedy by Stuart Wright (Patriots, Politics...2007, Cambridge UP).
Apparently Tim McVeigh and the militias he trained with (clustered
through Michigan) were composed mostly of people who were severely
impacted by the farm crisis (farmers who lost their farms, etc.).

On 11/22/2011 04:32 PM, lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org wrote:
>   Re: [lbo-talk] [PSN-CS] the soc mov'ts class outline

Carrol Cox:
the core way of estimating the social movements
between 1970&  now: How many people did a given movement 'recruit' who then
_remained_  activists and now link present to past.

I will raise that issue regularly.  There is some data on the ways that
each round of farm/farm labor struggle has been able to find/draw on
veterans from previous stuggles, just as there are many reports of the
importance of older ex-Panthers etc. to later urban struggles... but, as
you note, good empirical data is brutally hard to find.

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