In 1960 while she was in HS my ex-wife went on a class trip to NYC and cme back with a Village Voice, which I now have.
The politics was totally lame. Very mild left-liberalism / Reform Democrat with a slight anti-war flavor. The restaurants reviewed looked boring too.
On eht other hand, the music listings were people like Miles Davis, Charles Mingus.... can't remember which, but lots of all-time greats.
People underestimate the degree to which Truman / McCarthy / HUAC intimidated people. In my college in 1964 the faculty were all mainstream Democrats of a timid sort.
U hit a key point head on
Liberal Dems came in 3 varieties
In MH'S world
1950s
Corporate dems
progressive dems
And the fire and ice compound
Machine/Jim crow dems
Number 3 blew apart and blew up
In the 60s
In the 70s
Some progressive liberals became de facto
Corporate liberals
As these pusilanimous critters ate the party core
post 72
Union democrats blew aka new deal democrats
Union dem9crats. Look to the anti red purges 1940s
Up to the afl cio moige in mid 50s
After that ?
Union Dems were indistinguishable from Corporate dems
Both into the treaty of Detroit
And smiley faced
us imperial projects
From Carter to Clinton
This fusion held together with ever worse outcomes for wage earners
New progressive movement? basically a 21st century eruption
Progressive projects
Civil rights movement of the 50s
and the liberation movements
of the 60s
Ending and reversed
with the corporate liberation movement of the 70s
Rising on a wave of whitey reaction
In 1960 while she was in HS my ex-wife went on a class trip to NYC and cme back with a Village Voice, which I now have.
The politics was totally lame. Very mild left-liberalism / Reform Democrat with a slight anti-war flavor. The restaurants reviewed looked boring too.
On eht other hand, the music listings were people like Miles Davis, Charles Mingus.... can't remember which, but lots of all-time greats.
People underestimate the degree to which Truman / McCarthy / HUAC intimidated people. In my college in 1964 the faculty were all mainstream Democrats of a timid sort.
“that’s 75-year old me haranguing my 20-year old self”
Nice.
“prediction is hard, and MH cannot be faulted for failing to foresee the dismal future”
Fair. David M. Gordon, et al, didn't come up with SSA theory till the late '70s.
Speaking of works from the early '70s, ever read The New Socialist Revolution by Michael P. Lerner?
Nope on Lerner. Not edgy enough for me.