"I would suggest that every leftist ,communist,socialist,whatever term you want to use,who is over the age of fifty,join a socialist party,where a majority of the members are under thirty."
High-mindedly speaking here, the theme of generational warfare, one thinks, in and of itself, however attenuated and well-intentioned (if it's ever truly well-intentioned) is a dead end. One does not owe an apology to "the young" for the crimes of a generation. "Don't trust anyone over thirty" was journalistic drivel in 1966, and, since this is its second coming, is farcical drivel now--if that's what anyone is saying. Quite apart from the presumptuous insult involved in this casual ageism--which is after all only a passive-aggressive way of picking a fight, and we all like to fight--the dividing of all humankind into the good under-thirties and the bad over-thirties is perhaps, if one may be forgiven for daring, with whatever lofty intent, to say so, a strikingly inadequate theory of social class. This was true when one was under thirty, and is still true >From what one can tell, there is a lot of vulgar Graeberism--and adventurism >and ultraleftism--out there among the young "shadowers" of BLM. If this isn't >so, one would love to know what the case is instead of getting a bunch of Bob >Dylan you-ain't-hip cr*p about something happening Mr. Jones etc., etc. or the >modern equivalent. Does the new social-justice movement truly have leading voices apart from BLM instead of the usual kibitzers falsely or naively claiming to be in the lead? Who are they and where does one find them? Does the Occupy heritage, now in a second incarnation, still deserve to be in the lead, or has it become another banana peel leading to another pratfall in the long Mack Sennet descent into barbarism? How do "the young" feel about a general strike? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2295): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2295 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
