The point I explained in my previous post helps explain why the present generation of college students show so little interest in activism. They are working class, as were the 'rebels' of the '60s, but the sector of the working class that attends college is less privileged today (has less leisure and less certain prospects) than the working-class students of the '60s. And in every epoch the more privileged sectors of the working class (or peasantry in peasant nations) are the sectors that form the backbone of the left. (Middle, not poor, peasants made the Chinese Revolution.)
Freedom consists of free time. The freest workers in the '60s were students. The frees section of the working class now consists of retired people -- and retired people make up the backbone of the present anti-war struggle. Carrol
