Doctor Awesome (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} crazy_go_nuts) wrote in alannalp, |
It's just not so easy to overturn or even change a government through protest. Take 1968, for instance... the most passionate protests America saw in the 20th century. And yet we were in Vietnam for another 7 years after that, and kept making Vietnam-like decisions for decades to come.
If you look at 1968 in a global context, there were protests everywhere, but the only place they had any real impact was in places like France, where the workers joined with the students (in the US, the workers were generally pro-Government). Not to sound all Marxist, but I do think a revolution (or effective protest movement) needs support not just from those of us in academia but from the common guy on the street.
If you look at 1968 in a global context, there were protests everywhere, but the only place they had any real impact was in places like France, where the workers joined with the students (in the US, the workers were generally pro-Government). Not to sound all Marxist, but I do think a revolution (or effective protest movement) needs support not just from those of us in academia but from the common guy on the street.
