Jim Farmelant wrote:
That sort of thing was rather characteristic of much of the
socialist movement in both the US and UK at the time.
One of the leading figures in the American branch
of the IWMA, was Victoria Woodhull, the first
woman to run for president of the US, was a
famous medium.
40 years ago -- from August 15 to August 18, 1969 -- hundreds of
thousands of young people gathered for three days of ``peace, love and
music''. In the midst of the mass movement against the Vietnam War and
the youth radicalisation it unleashed, oppostion to the US slaughter in
Vietnam was
glparramatta glparrama...@greenleft.org.au writes:
40 years ago -- from August 15 to August 18, 1969 -- hundreds of
thousands of young people gathered for three days of ``peace, love and
music''. In the midst of the mass movement against the Vietnam War and
the youth radicalisation it
Or Woody Guthries radical populist appeal that This Land is Your
Land. In short order, the military was using it in concerts.
But this has always been the case with almost every kind of cultural innovation.
Actuarial tables and insurance owed much to the mutual aid
cooperatives. Socialist
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From: Mark Lause markala...@gmail.com
To: farmela...@juno.com
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Woodstock 40 years ago: Country Joe McDonald's and Jimi
Hendrix's antiwar classics | Links
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:16:31 -0400
Or Woody Guthries radical populist appeal that This Land is Your
Land
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:43:38 -0400 Mark Lause markala...@gmail.com
writes:
Bellamy's Nationalists had so many spiritualists, Theosophists and
various eccentrics in it (especially in California) that you could
probably make a good argument that it contributed to making the
west
coast
was speaking and showing a slide show
of his recent trip to Cuba until these Cuban exiles (gusanos) showed up and
set off a tear gas cannister.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:07:59 +1000
From: glparrama...@greenleft.org.au
Subject: [Marxism] Woodstock 40 years ago: Country Joe McDonald's and Jimi
Yeah and of course Marcuse-and I don't mean this as an attack on anyone
here-talked about these polemics and how in the context of the 60s they
represented an expression of the conservative outlook of the industrial
proletariat and orthodox marxism against radical students, hippies and
Notwithstanding Marx and Engels, spiritualism was a much more serious
movement than the kind of personal eccentricity they seemed to regard
it. Although there are already a number of very good treatments of
the movement in the UK, it was even more so in the US. Almost all of
the widely
