Frenesi

[Terrance]

Richard Fiero wrote:
> 
> Terrance wrote:
> 
> >  . . .
> >Yeah, those who took part in the mass struggles of the 1960s and early
> >1970s will know that the birth of the struggle coincided not with the
> >initial campaign for civil rights but with the demand for black
> >liberation; that the leading influence was not Martin Luther King, Jr.,
> >but Malcolm X.
> 
> Disnfo?
> HUAC demonstrations, US anti-Cuban Revolution backlash, Freedom
> Rides and most especially the antics of the Locals served to
> shape the nature of the struggles in the streets. The silliness
> spouted on this list about rhetorics and abstractions is
> beneath contempt. Malcolm at least got a hearing on the Tube,
> something that is denied to today's dissenting voices.

Lot of movers and shapers. Look it up. Did I get it backward or is it
just gas? 


> 
> Critiques of the struggles on this list seem to focus on the
> period of the early to mid-70s which is after the Left had been
> heavily infiltrated with moles, diffusers and provocateurs for
> the purpose of discrediting it.
> <wishing his Tupperware contained explosives>
> Cheers.

Actually we have focused on the late 1960's and that's because the novel
(we are discussing the novel Vineland here) deals with that time period.