VLVL the collapse of the Youth Movement

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In einer eMail vom 23.02.2004 10:04:04 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 
ottosell at yahoo.de:


> Love & Peace -- the rebellion against the Puritan repression and
> the resistance against the war have been the starting points of the
> movement. And don't underestimate the importance and influence of the Blues
> (one thing I really miss in Vineland). The music of the movement, a basic
> element, was grounded on and cannot be separated from the knowledge under
> which social circumstances this culture had developed.
> 

The "Blues" (the feeling not only the music) was indeed very important. In 
the autobiography of "Bommi" Baumann ("Wie alles anfing" - How all began), a 
terrorist of the "Bewegung 2. Juni" (in Germany there were two terrorist 
organisations during the seventies, the RAF and "Movement of June the second" which 
referred to the killing of Benno Ohnesorge on June 2nd, 1967 by a policeman 
during the demos against the Schah visit in Berlin) Baumann emphasizes that the 
reason why he became a terrorist was the "blues" - a general feeling of 
subversion. Baumann was one of the few real members of the working class in RAF and 
June 2nd.
kwp
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