I certainly wouldn't recommend Prof. Lilla's Social Thought courses to
anyone on the basis of this article. What is this nonsense about the
changes in Europe having occurred without "street marches," etc.? 1968
in France would have been a genuine social revolution if the working
class had been willing to back up the students. The Bader-Meinhof
violent anarchists in Germany were not a tea-party.
William Mandel
radman wrote:
>
> Shades of the '60s
>
> <http://www.msnbc.com/news/578883.asp?cp1=1>
>
> Europe has escaped the cultural wars that racked American
> society, but the continent's smooth social transition comes
> with its own dangers
>
> By Mark Lilla
> NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL
> June 4 issue
>
>
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Do you teach in the social sciences? Consider my SAYING NO TO POWER
(Creative Arts, Berkeley, 1999), for course use. It was written as a
social history of
the U.S. for the past three-quarters of a century through the eyes of a
participant
observer in most progressive social movements (I'm 84), and of the USSR
from the
standpoint of a Sovietologist (five earlier books) knowing that country
longer than any
other in the profession. Therefore it is also a history of the Cold War.
Positive reviews
in The Black Scholar, American Studies in Scandinavia, San Francisco
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