Re: [Marxism] The low point of the CNN-You Tube debate

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jscotlive@xxxxxxx wrote:
>  
> But today there is no draft, is there? And actually antiwar sentiment  spread 
> through the ranks as a direct result of the sheer number of bodybags that  
> were coming home married to an antiwar movement that grew in both size and  
> militancy as the war went on. This is in contradistinction to the antiwar  
> movement today, which has contracted as the war continues.

It doesn't really matter if they are drafted or not. The most famous and 
most effective antiwar GI from the Vietnam epoch was Ron Kovic, a 
gung-ho Marine enlistee who lost the use of his legs in a mortar attack. 
In his "Born on the Fourth of July," it is very clear that he came 
around the antiwar movement because of its massive size and its tendency 
to make distinctions between the real murderers in Washington and 
hapless naifs like himself.



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