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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (191988)6/18/2012 1:14:03 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Read Replies (2) of 543798
 
Very interesting commentary. So the organizers/founders of SNCC were themselves deep into philosophical existentialism which as you note was prevalent throughout college campuses as an intellectual approach or a competing world view of things (as opposed to mainstream Christianity).

But I still maintain the student protests themselves of the 60's were primarily driven by two things--the move for racial equality and the need to politically organize to oppose the VN War. The fact that Campuses were rife with intellectual discussion of existentialism at the time is "incidental" or perhaps "complimentary" to these movements, but not the source of their strength.
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