Max Sawicky wrote: > As for "the 60s," I was in SDS and went to big demos. Most of the > people there were on a protest picnic. They didn't read Marx. I had > barely read Marx myself. ...
I'm more of a 70s guy, but my impression was that a lot of demos involved the effort to meet people of the opposite (or same) sex. The fact that they didn't read Marx is secondary to the fact that they scared Nixon _et al_. The actual raising of consciousness came later, as people tried to make sense of what in heck was going on. (How could our democratically-elected governments do such horrible things, in Vietnam, in Chicago in 1968, etc.?) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
