Secaucus Seven could have been much worse. It could have been The Big Chill.
Sure there was also the Joy of Sects. I diddled around with them too. But I would hazard the thought that only SDS and SNCC had a public face of any consequence. The cadres energized those formations more than the reverse, except in terms of the trickle of recruits. On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. The radical edges of the time -- SDS and >> SNCC -- motivated a basically liberal mass activism, partly with >> salient criticism of the system, and partly by the power of negative >> example. > > Radical edges? More like the cast of "Return of the Secaucus Seven". When > the comic book version of my memoir comes out (unless Random House folds in > the meantime, which is entirely possible), then you'll see the real radical > edge. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
