our "foot-soldiers"

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Thu Oct 4 07:47:07 CDT 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> In the 1960s, a significant number of American Leftists gave up on the
> revolutionary potential of working class people.

And turned to university students. Trouble with students is they grow up and
become parents mostly with the same middle class concerns as the rest of the
population and with disgruntled college age children of their own whom they
must tell "I used to think just like you." Leftism never gets a lasting hold
on anyone but the intellectuals. Academic Marxism. Good tool of analysis but
forget toppling the system.
        P




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