This is spot on! On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 12:31:55PM -0500, Carrol Cox wrote: > 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
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