Should I retroactively miss the 60's?

[jake williams]

It just seems like everything was going on, you know? The USSR was pretty far gone, but at least it existed, it was something. Way better than that though, you had Cuba and that was new, you had decolonization, you had everyone blowing up everywhere, and maybe most importantly you had a cultural revolution, women and art and sexuality and the whole popular idea of racial equality came into being, whatever it got done. Shit was happening, you know? And now it seems like, you know, end of history, Let's-make-the-capitalists-nicer, everything is over and no one wants to do anything, at least here. I don't like the idea of false nostalgia - but it sort of seems sensible in response to the current zeitgeist, and theirs.

[Guerrilla Manila]

I would contend that it was the greatest and most influential decade in the history of the World.

It has also struck fear in the hearts of reactionaries ever since.

[Zurdito]

I admit to very much retrospectively missing the 1960's

incidentally this year is 40th anniversary of May 68, which is kind of obvious to anyone who can do maths but still worth pointing out. :)

[jake williams]

Whoops, I didn't mean for this to end up in a subforum. Is there someone who can move this out to the History forum?

[Holden Caulfield]

i wish i was alive in the 70's in Britain,
:(the workers were on the verge

[Nakidana]

no one wants to do anything

Tell me about it. Just the other day I was telling one of my friends about the de Menezes shooting and how the cops pumped seven bullets into his head. My friend started laughing and said he didn't believe what I was telling him. As if I was fucking making it up. I flipped out on him after which he got all quiet.

It's depressing to see people so politically ignorant, that when you're actually telling the truth they think you're making it up. That's probably one of the reasons why nobody is doing anything.

[Lynx]

Didn't the 60's end with the election of Richard Nixon?

[Comrade Rage]

Didn't the 60's end with the election of Richard Nixon?My point exactly!

[Lenin II]

It seems like reformism such as the Hippie movement can only lead to further reaction from society, a tide if you will. The people and particularly the reactionaries went swinging back to the right and amped up their attacks. Look at the pattern - 60s & 70s are progressive, 80s are reactionary, 90s progressive, this decade is reactionary. With these kind of movements there are always unfortunate attacks that negate their gains. Just another example of why revolutionary upsurge is the only thing that leads to permanent change.

[Lenin II]

Can someone tell me why in god's name this thread in in the Che Guevara forum?

[RedAnarchist]

Can someone tell me why in god's name this thread in in the Che Guevara forum?

I suppose thats when he was most active.

[RedAnarchist]

I know the OP said "retrospectively", but how can you "miss" something from decades before you were even born?

[Guerrilla Manila]

Moderators ... This thread should be placed in the History forum.