Gar Lipow wrote: > > > Excluding the anti-war and civil rights movement is one hell of an > exclusion - since civil rights includes not only the rights of people > of color, but the feminist and GLBT movements.
"Slight wobble" is not equivalent to exclusion. The civil-rights movement gained blacks certain elementary rights (access to public facilities, elimination of _il_legal lynching, voting, etc. That was important, but you probably can yourself recite all the ills which black people still suffer from in the u.s. Institutional racism still has deep roots in u.s. life. An apparent gain of influence in the DP for anti-interventionists, blacks, women (1972) disappeared rather quickly, far more quickly than did the influence of organized labor in the DP after the 1930s. (And the gains of blacks in _that_ decade had been neglible.) By 1976 the so-called Reagan era was well under way.) > > But I guess what you are talking about is explicitly class oriented > movements, the class struggle No! Any kind of gains that can be seriously labelled "progressive" and that became permanently entrenched in u.s. life. The list is pretty pathetic, and by 1948 at the latest the gains of the '30s were under serious attack. (The wartime gains for women were gone by 1950.) But Jim is right. I can't see any way to actually measure my claim. I put it forth for consideration. Carrol > that dares to say its name, or at least > dares to utter the word "worker". But why would you put that > specifically at 1938 rather than the mid to late forties?
