Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UP against the wall!" The slogan, usually in combination with a few supplementary obscenities, has become the battle cry of the U.S. protest movement-or at least a sizable part of it. The words express a temper of growing violence, brutality and authoritarianism among protesters. Sometimes in the exultation of...
The problem is not protest as such. In some ways, it can be considered encouraging that more and more young Americans refuse to accept any disparity between U.S. ideals and U.S. realities. There is something gallant about a generation that questions a doubtful war, racial injustice, poverty amid plenty and...
What makes all this especially disturbing is not, in the first instance, that protesters desire revolution. It is, rather, that they are naive about the nature and history of revolution, and what it takes to bring one about. It is obvious that any hope for revolution in the contemporary U.S...
For one thing, successful revolutions are typically linked to severe economic dislocations. Despite continuing ugly poverty, particularly among blacks, the American economy is so robust that talk of a revolution based on economic discontent verges on fantasy. Military disaster is another spur for revolution. If sufficiently prolonged, the Viet Nam...
Many of the rebels are acting out of a general sense of despair about America-and this despair deserves a measure of respect. But other aspiring Jacobins seem to regard the shouts and gestures of revolution merely as drugs for instant, mystical satisfaction. Perhaps the most striking feature of the...