XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british   
   From: stephen.glynn@ntlworld.com   
      
   banana wrote:   
   > In article <22odf.16567$Ua6.7976@newsfe6-win.ntli.net>, Stephen Glynn   
   >  writes   
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   >   
   >>MikeinCamden@aol.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>What does 'radicals' mean?   
   >   
   >   
   >>Probably farmers, hauliers or air-traffic-controllers.   
   >   
   >   
   > Peasants, Poujadist petty bourgeois, and 'labour aristocrats' have   
   > practically zero involvement in the current movement.   
   >   
   >   
   >>They're the   
   >>chaps in France who normally set fires (in the case of the first two) or   
   >>cause widespread disruption.   Possibly radical students being retro and   
   >>remembering what their parents did in '68.   
   >   
   >   
   > If you think May 1968 mainly involved students, you should find out   
   > something about it...   
   >   
      
   I'd always understood the French left's excuse for May 1968 amounting to   
   very little in the long run was that, for whatever reason, the workers   
   didn't -- with some exceptions, notably a couple of car plants IIRC --   
   get involved.   
      
   If, however, you're telling me that the French workers did, in fact,   
   join in en masse but the phenomenon of French workers *not*, in fact,   
   working has very little effect on the world in general or France in   
   particular, what with them being French so few people could tell the   
   difference, I'm perfectly prepared to believe it.   
      
   Steve   
      
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