The point I explained in my previous post helps explain why the present
generation of college students show so little interest in activism. They
are working class, as were the 'rebels' of the '60s, but the sector of
the working class that attends college is less privileged today (has
less leisure and less certain prospects) than the working-class students
of the '60s. And in every epoch the more privileged sectors of the
working class (or peasantry in peasant nations) are the sectors that
form the backbone of the left. (Middle, not poor, peasants made the
Chinese Revolution.)

Freedom consists of free time. The freest workers in the '60s were
students. The frees section of the working class now consists of retired
people -- and retired people make up the backbone of the present
anti-war struggle.

Carrol

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