If these young people think this way, they may also be subject to the vulgar Graeberian nonsense about not needing ever to vote on anything because no demands, consensus only, and autonomous zones and and. Uh-kuh, Boom ar ar ?
I realize that we are all supposed to be salaaming and signaling respect to "the young"--though I don't recall getting a lot of deference when I was twenty and protesting. Mostly we got teargassed, hit on the head, and threatened with dire consequences by everyone from George Wallace (in person) to "liberal" professors and the sunhuman shitbirds in Progressive Labor. And we mustn't forget scum like that asshole Irwin Silber. It was awful and very destructive personally--and death was in the air. I empathize with people who are going through today's shit, especially the economic immiseration. But even that started fifty years ago with the Nixon Recession, which hasn't truly let up since it started. Plenty of us Boomers fled the gig economy then and wound up as underpaid and exploited servants of the fuck-me-and-I'll-get-you-a-job "professoriate" and the bullshit "entrepreneurs" who ran youth-exploitation businesses like Gnomon Copy- in Harvard Square. Ugh! If this article is factual (and we do have to consider the source) this young people's movement may have all but deprived itself of a voice with their callow anarchism. If they don't develop a taste for a bit of verticality and a functioning grasp of history their protests will vanish like the snows of Kilimanjaro. Indeed, they are IMO in a slow process of doing so. If there's a Biden Administration, they'll put a stop to the demos quicker than you can say Scaramucci. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2249): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2249 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77321640/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
