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| | The Way the Wind Blew |
 | | Recognizing this, groups like the Revolutionary Union and the October League romanticized the caricature of the workers represented by Archie Bunker while, on the other hand, Weather, the Yippies, women's groups, and other New Left organizations, maintained their anti-racist, anti-sexist (and, ultimately, anti-worker) platform developed in the sixties and seventies. |
 | | Although youthful discontent with the products of the increasingly centralized political and economic system in the United States and other capitalist nations motivated much of the New Left in the sixties and seventies, the majority of the discontented youth maintained a belief that their society was capable of remedying the problems. |
 | | In SDS, these positions took two main forms by the summer of 1969 (Weatherman and RYM II), both deriving from the SDS statement 'Towards a Revolutionary Youth Movement.' Although both agreed on the particular exploitation of youth, the perception of youth's role in the revolutionary struggle differed. |
| www.neravt.com /left/books/windblew.htm (1933 words) |
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