Power to the People

Posted on June 16, 2009
Filed Under History, Politics |

During the faux revolutionary times of the 1960s, retrospectively romanticized by an aging leftist baby boomer cohort, the most popular expression of revolutionary zeal was “Power to the People.” Of course, the slogan meant many different things. To the serious Trotskyite revolutionaries, it meant a violent overthrow of the government to be replaced by a communist “dictatorship of the proletariat.” To the less virulent “New Left”, it meant tossing out the sclerotic old guard (on the left side

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