60s radicalism
Posted at 2:24pm on Feb. 22, 2008 Obama's Desolation Homesick Blues.
By Paul J Cella
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows — Bob Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the wind blew rumors of sedition, revolution and terrorism from the Left. It disclosed the falsity of the association of the anti-war movement with noble pacifism. In truth this falsity should have been evident to anyone still possessed of his critical intellect. The Jacobins were very far from being pacifists; and virtually every subsequent revolutionary movement, from anarchism to syndicalism, from Fascism to Communism, included some notion of sacred violence or justified terrorism. The quasi-revolution of the Sixties never accomplished much in the way of violence, at least in the sense of violence sufficient to threaten the regime; but it was not for lack of intent.
With that context, consider this article from the Politico:
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