[Marxism] 20,000 march on Jena

[Greg McDonald]

John Edmunson wrote:

"I suspect there's a bit of a straw man emerging here. It seems to me
that the debate has been between:

a) people (Joaquin et al) who argue that the 60s was a pivotal time that
may show us how a revolutionary moment might look or occur, and that we
need to better understand how it emerged at a time of affluence and
growth and

b) people (like Phil) who claim that the 60s was able to be contained
because it didn't represent a fundamental challenge to capitalism, even
though it did bring some very real and beneficial changes.

Also, there's some difference of opinion about whether the movements in
the West (primarily the US) were influenced/inspired by 3rd world
independence struggles or vice versa.

There isn't, as far as I can see, a third group trying to claim the 60s
were irrelevant."

Sorry John, I guess I should have been more specific. I was  
responding to the comment below.

Greg



Bradley B. wrote:

"Now I must say that I don't count the civil rights movement as a  
project of the sixties, sure it was still going in the mid sixties  
but the bulk of the sixties was the anti-war and counterculture  
movement, both of which did not advance anti-capitalist struggles in  
the least. "