tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post665879861688829279..comments2024-01-08T04:16:25.601-08:00Comments on Ché (What You Call Your) Pasa: Free Speech MovementChé Pasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-76935056526847031812010-01-29T09:21:58.696-08:002010-01-29T09:21:58.696-08:00Will try to find the link to it, but NPR did a sto...Will try to find the link to it, but NPR did a story on California university problems on Wednesday. Interviewed some kids and talked about some of their struggles, a coupla teachers and the head honcho. <br /><br />. . . <br /><br />Class. Should be a point of solidarity for the left. But it seems to have lost its power . . . and as you point out, it didn't always hold even in the left's heyday. <br /><br />. . . <br /><br />Anyway, thanks for your posts. Rereading William Barrett's classic 1958 intro to Existentialism, Irrational Man. Must be the sixth time. Has me thinking about all kinds of root causes and such. Will respond later with with thoughts. <br /><br />Hope all is well.Cuchulainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-7965532433588950452010-01-28T19:15:57.041-08:002010-01-28T19:15:57.041-08:00Mario is a People's Hero, but he was and remai...Mario is a People's Hero, but he was and remains very threatening. Many of those who have taken up his cudgel have been marginalized or silenced, sometimes with extreme prejudice. <br /><br />It's much more dangerous now to do what he did, but there is no doubt of his bravery and that of the others who led and stayed with the FSM. <br /><br />And what he said about throwing your <i>self</i> on the gears of the Machine to bring it to a halt is as true now as ever. Problem is, in America, hardly anyone is willing to take that risk. Not even the TeaBaggers will go that far.<br /><br />As far as class goes, remember who these people were: they were the elite, and the elite of the elite. Mario was working class, but most of the student protesters were upper middle class and better, and they never left their class unless it was to move up. Their education at Berkeley was tuition free, as all public college and university education in California was at the time. And this led to immense resentment (exploited by the authorities and especially by Reagan) among the working classes. Here were these malcontents attending the most prestigious public university in the country, <i>free</i>, on the taxpayer's dime, and they <i>dared</i> to rise in protest over something so "trivial." How DARE they? Californians of all classes were livid, and it was especially acute among the working classes.<br /><br />Lots of things to consider, especially as Our Generous Corporate Overlords step in to some of the voids left by the hollowing out of the public sector since Reagan. <br /><br />It started in California. The way things are going, it may end here, too.Ché Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-49808388965787358742010-01-28T11:14:20.073-08:002010-01-28T11:14:20.073-08:00Thanks, Ché.
Excellent article. Will respond mor...Thanks, Ché. <br /><br />Excellent article. Will respond more fully later. <br /><br />Savio should be considered an American hero, but he gets no mention. Most don't know who is, or that he was hounded by the FBI. <br /><br />He walked the walk and risked everything. <br /><br />Thanks for the reminder!!<br /><br />(I might borrow your subject for my own blog, trying to tie it into Aristotle's idea of slaves being needed for "free men" to do great things, etc. etc. etc. For this weekend. I don't think we've moved as far from that twisted class attitude as some might think.)Cuchulainnoreply@blogger.com