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Owen Paine's avatar

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

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Owen Paine's avatar

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

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Owen Paine's avatar

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

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John Emerson's avatar

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.

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geraldmcgrew's avatar

“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?

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Max B. Sawicky's avatar

Nope on Lerner. Not edgy enough for me.

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