Re: [Marxism] New Pope hated 60's campus activism.

["Carlos Eduardo Rebello" <crebello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:21:23 -0400 Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
> > writes:
> > > NY Times, April 24, 2005
> > > Turbulence on Campus in 60's Hardened Views of Future Pope
> > This would appear to make Ratzinger much like the original
> > neocons in the US, many of who were liberals or social
> > democrats until the late 1960s, when they were facing
> > the student movement.

Actually, this puts the future Benedict XVI in a position similar to old
Theodor Adorno, who also was deeply shaken by a confrontation with students
at exactly the same time and is said as having died from it (in 1969).
Intersting that the 1960s, when the repressive ideological  consensus of the
1950s Welfare State exploded, should serve as the litmus test for so many
Left liberals of  all hues.

CR


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