Re: [Pen-l] Obama's speech [was: "Has Barack Obama's presidency already failed?"]

[Max Sawicky <maxbsawicky@xxxxxxxxx>]

Secaucus Seven could have been much worse.  It could have been The Big Chill.

Sure there was also the Joy of Sects.  I diddled around with them too.
 But I would hazard the thought that only SDS and SNCC had a public
face of any consequence.  The cadres energized those formations more
than the reverse, except in terms of the trickle of recruits.



On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Max Sawicky wrote:
>>
>> As for "the 60s," I was in SDS and went to big demos.  Most of the
>> people there were on a protest picnic.  They didn't read Marx.  I had
>> barely read Marx myself.  The radical edges of the time -- SDS and
>> SNCC -- motivated a basically liberal mass activism, partly with
>> salient criticism of the system, and partly by the power of negative
>> example.
>
> Radical edges? More like the cast of "Return of the Secaucus Seven". When
> the comic book version of my memoir comes out (unless Random House folds in
> the meantime, which is entirely possible), then you'll see the real radical
> edge.
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