[Marxism] Yale University: Spring of 1970

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A present Yale student sent a questionnaire to members of the class of 
1970 asking what it was like on campus during the height of the antiwar 
movement and the Black Panther Party demonstrations of May 1-3, 1970.

Despite some minor errors (misspelling Bobby Seale's name) and the 
Christmas bombing of 1972 (it was of North Vietnam, not Cambodia—it is 
clear from the context that the writer repeated a word already in his 
mind), this is a very valuable description of the actions and emotions 
at one of the U.S.'s most prestigious universities over the Vietnam 
War.

The flavor of Bart Whiteman's 3,300 word commentary makes it clear why 
U.S. imperialism does not want a similar repetition over Iraq. Although 
Whiteman is puzzled over the absence of a similar student response to 
Iraq, there is no doubt that college students are also beginning to 
assimilate the negative results of the Iraq war, and wiser imperialist 
heads than Bush and Chaney are beginning to recognize the potential 
disastrous long-term effects from the present war both at home and 
abroad. They are creating a new Iraq syndrome to match and even blend 
in with the so-called Vietnam syndrome.

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_76466.asp

Brian Shannon


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