Researching countercultural politics, I found Hillary Rodham’s 1969 Wellesley Commencement Speech interesting: http://www.wellesley.edu/events/commencement/archives/1969commencement/studentspeech …
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Replying to @Meaningness
oh my god the blather, it's right there at the beginning
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Replying to @St_Rev
It’s interesting in lots of ways… one is its incoherence. I guess one could cut her some slack for being 22.
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
I’ve spent WAY too much time researching the origins of the current culture war in the 1960s-80s one, so I have to resist rabbit >
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
holes, but one thing I’d like to understand more clearly is how and when the anti-authoritarian New Left turned authoritarian
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
That history is well documented, there was a radicalization spiral that let hardcore Marxists take over.
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I was thinking more about how the New Left gradually turned into the Respectable Left. Hilary being an example, maybe.
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
Ah, that's a different story...driven I think just by radicals aging and getting actual jobs.
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I was guessing that… Would be interesting to know details, but have spent WAY too much time researching this stuff already!
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I got somehow obsessed with understanding the religious right. After year and a half, think I finally do.
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and actually, from that a better understanding of the Trump right. Possibly even alt-right, although that’s a far bridge!
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