Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordinary life. He thinks that to emphasize survivial alone and to reject self-sacrifice is despicable. But this judgement is qualified by his concession that "Contemporary politics to be sure, provides an substance of realistic reasons for regarding sacrifice in this light." He agrees with the goals of the antiwar and environmental movements, but feels that they "appeal to some of the worst impulses in contemporary culture." Here one is tempted to conclude that Lasch is putting the mere survival of his own argument ahead of all the particular qualities--clarity is one of them-which make it worthwhile...
...instance, the authors show convincingly that the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), commonly perceived to have been one of the driving forces in the antiwar movement lost the leadership of this movement as early...
Enbcknownst to the non-radical world. SDS was for a long time paralyzed between the antiwar faction and the revolutionaries who wanted to restructure American society so as to prevent "the seventh wal from now." And complimenting the situation was SDS's extreme democratic governance every decision had to be approved by all members...
Despite the impotence of the SDS within the antiwar movement. I received most of the press coverage. In 1967, SDS National Secretary Greg Calvert talked with The New York Times: his widely-read "fire-eating rhetoric," write Zaroulis and Sullivan, made "more difficult the task of all the many groups working to end the war in Vietnam...
...snippers like this which make the book worthwhile. The internal dynamics of the disparate groups that comprised the antiwar movement are an important and micy subject. And it's sort of fun knowing that skimming through this very readable book puts you at the forefront of anti-Vietnam War scholarship...