RE: [Marxism] re: Some comments on Stan Goff's post--on the 60s and 70s

["Mark Lause" <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The radicalization did spread into the working class, which became
proportionately more skeptical of the Vietnam War than college students.
This was also expressed in the adoption of many of the characteristics
of the counterculture like drugs, long hair on men, etc.  Workingclass
attitudes to sex and marriage never quite mirrored the quest for middle
class respectability, but it came close among white workers, at least,
in the 1950s.  By 1970s, it was pretty traditionally workingclass and
the norm had been cohabitation, etc.

The question to ask, perhaps, is why that radicalization did not have a
major effect on the dynamic of unionism of the nature of the American
Left.

Certainly, that would have made for a different situation than we have
had in the last generation.

ML




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