Re: [Marxism] Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

[Gulf Mann]

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Many thanks. ~Gulfmann

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Re: [Marxism] Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

[Andrew Pollack]

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For NYers, she'll be talking on her book on May 20th:
http://bluestockings.com/events/

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Re: [Marxism] Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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It wasn't for me, but here's the text just in case:

Decades after its conclusion, the U.S. war in Vietnam remains an unsettled
part of our collective memory. Members of the military, veterans, scholars,
journalists, and artists continue to revisit and reinterpret the war,
assessing its historical significance while seeking meaning for wars fought
today. Despite the efforts of our political elites to put the ghosts of
Vietnam to rest, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have prolonged these
discussions. Books and articles with titles like "Is Afghanistan Another
Vietnam?" abound. The economic and political imperatives that drive U.S.
foreign policy, the appropriate use of force, the domestic costs of war,
the treatment and trauma of veterans, whether today's wars are "winnable"
or "worth it"—appropriate or not, those are some of the many points of
comparison and concern.

Yet to some observers, the antiwar movement that quickly emerged (and
faded) after 9/11 was a different beast from that of the Vietnam era. "The
first thing you notice about the antiwar movement is that it isn't your
father's," quipped *New York *magazine in 2005. "It's no longer the good
workers of America against the crazy liberal elitists."

To the extent that our memory of Vietnam remains ambiguous, it underscores
the nagging uncertainty that the United States was left with after that
war. But amid this incomplete accounting, some dominant myths emerged that
continue to hold sway. An important one is a narrative about the antiwar
movement, which informs our contemporary understandings of class politics
as well as of the social sources of support for protest against war in the
United States.

The story we tell ourselves about social division over the war in Vietnam
follows a particular, class-specific outline: The war "split the country"
between "doves" and "hawks." The "doves," most often conflated with "the
movement," were upper-middle-class in their composition and politics. The
movement was the New Left, and a big part of what made the New Left "new"
was its break from the working-class politics and roots of the Old Left.
Think of Dr. Benjamin Spock, Tom Hayden, Jane Fonda, Eugene McCarthy,
George McGovern, Students for a Democratic Society, Weathermen: students,
intellectuals, professionals, celebrities; liberal or radical privileged
elites.

And what of the "hawks"? Beyond the military brass, war supporters are
often imagined as "ordinary" Americans: white people from Middle America (a
term coined in the 1960s), who supported God, country, and "our boys in the
'Nam." They were working-class patriots who insisted that criticism of the
war meant criticism of the soldier. "If you can't be with them, be for
them," as the sign read. Many of these Middle Americans epitomized moderate
middle-class solidity and stolidity, while the workers among them, or
members of the lower middle class, are remembered for having supported
George Wallace and Richard Nixon, and their status as Reagan Democrats was
imminent, even immanent, as early as 1968.

Most accounts of the working class depict them as largely supportive of the
war and hostile to the numerous movements for social change. We need look
no further than the most enduring image of the working class from that
period, a certain cranky worker from Queens, N.Y. The TV character Archie
Bunker, who brought the working class to prime time as white, bigoted,
sexist, homophobic, and yearning for the good old days before the welfare
state, when everybody pulled his weight, when girls were girls and men were
men.

"Hardhats," a stereotype based primarily on construction workers in New
York City who assaulted antiwar protesters at a Manhattan rally in May
1970, were the iconic hawks. The most important working-class institution
in the postwar era, the AFL-CIO, is remembered for being virulently
anticommunist and vociferously pro-war; big labor's embrace of the Vietnam
cause confirmed the image of the working-class patriot who shouts "Love it
or leave it!" at young, entitled hippies.

Working-class opposition to the war in Vietnam was far more widespread than
is remembered.

But this memory of the Vietnam era contains only half-truths, and overall
it is a falsehood. The notion that liberal elites dominated the antiwar
movement has served to obfuscate a more complex story. Working-class
opposition to the war was significantly more widespread than is remembered,
and parts of the movement found roots in working-class communities and
politics.

In fact, by and large, the greatest support for the war came from the
privileged elite, despite the visible dissension of a minority of its
leaders and youth. The country was divided over the war, alongside many
other pressing social issues—but the cla

Re: [Marxism] Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

[Louis Proyect]

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On 5/16/13 9:21 PM, Gulf Mann wrote:


This is behind a pay wall.



Weird. My Columbia ID failed to get past the paywall as well. I will 
check tomorrow.



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Re: [Marxism] Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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This is behind a pay wall.

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[Marxism] Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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