monkerud wrote:
> > You don't like loyalty tests, but that's exactly what you are
> >requiring of anyone who believes they are/were a radical activist or a
> >member of the Left, or whatever. The only homogeneity that existed at
> >the time was that the members were born in the same relative time
> >period(s) and that they were into rebellion (and rarely the same
> >rebellion as everyone else).
Whoa! There must be some others from my age cohort who followed a
political curve like mine: born well before the baby boomers (1930) but
radicalized at the same time. I served in the Air Force during the Korean
War (that was the mode of draft dodging then -- they even called us
that at Lackland) and was attached to the National Security Agency
(deciphering Czech Border Guard Traffic). And I never "rebelled" --
I went into political resistance, first on a small scale, and then to
capitalism. The idea of personal "rebellion" always seemed silly to
me.
Carrol Cox
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