SLSL Intro "Chicago School"

[barbara100 at jps.net]

> The fact that he notes that this
> sense of affinity with the hippies only lasted "for a while, anyway" is
> another pretty clear reminder of his disillusionment with the direction
the
> student radical movement took in the late '60s.

If he wants to express his "disillusionment"  with the student movement of
the '60s, he has ample opportunity.  In the very next paragraph (bottom of
page 9) he says, "On the negative side, however..." and then goes into how
the movement was wasted on youth. And he being "an unpolitical 50s student"
he knows firsthand how much it was wasted.

If he's disillusioned by anything, it's failure of the movement to progress,
the failure of radical students and blue-collar workers uniting,
communicating.  Clearly he wanted them to communicate.  And if they had
communicated, they would have succeeded.

The success of the "new left" later in the '60s was to be limited by the
failure of college kids and blue-collar workers to get together politically.
One reason was the presence of real, invisible class force fields in the way
of communication between the two groups."
(SLSL, 6 -7)


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