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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (192025)6/18/2012 10:21:59 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 543775
 
With all due respect John, you are really missing the point of existentialism. I guarantee you it had nothing, nothing at all to do with the YMCA or YWCA, etc and in fact it was the antithesis. Hippies did not join the YMCA or YWCA. In fact had nothing to do with them. They were seen as primitive artifacts.
I get your point, koan. We just disagree based on our reading of existentialism and our experiences during this period. But on this point, you misstate my argument. At the University of Texas, in terms of student activism in the late 50 and early 60s, it came via the two sources I cited above. And they were intertwined in that the same individuals were working their way through both.

The best source I know for reading about this is Ronnie Dugger's (the founding editor of the great liberal Texas newspaper, The Texas Observor) book on the history of the university during this period.

And this intertwined experience was copied nationally, at least in so far as I know anything about it.

As for other reading that mattered, C. Wright Mills sociological work, which was a critical source for coming to conclusions about the US power structure. I know Tom Hayden was very attached to it. At least at this point.
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