On money and billy clubs

[Michael Bailey]

Ian Livingston  wrote:
> Remembering that Oedipa is a Young Republican, of course.
>

exactly!  that meant something a bit different in 1966 than it does
now, although there are still similarities...

>> a bit about learning from history...
>
> As per Santayana's infamously misquoted assertion that those who fail
> to learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them?
>

right on.  the biggest instance I can think of is how although by 1966
Leninist Marxism was still lumbering along, even at that early date it
was pretty clear that every anarchist movement that had arisen
anywhere had gotten the everliving crap kicked out of it
(which is a shame, as it's by far the most attractive theory in many respects)
but knowing that history probably has something to do with her
approaching it gingerly