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Greg Nagle's avatar

Quite a story which I did not know ran so deep in Germany.

In the northwest I lived in a much saner corner of the counterculture where challenging taboos was much less part of it. We were forest workers and took our identity from that.

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Lily Lynch's avatar

Forest worker sounds idyllic and considerably less destructive!

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Greg Nagle's avatar

More rooted in the rural working class, we were tree planters organized in the largest worker cooperative in the US. We had good meetings, other corners of the left were too often a disappointment to me later. And yes, as you say, too much of that was dominated by people who took their identity from alienation.

But I understand Germans who had to contend with a festering past.

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Greg Nagle's avatar

You might have seen this which is what some greens were reacting against.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/02/the-villa-where-doctors-experimented-on-children?

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Lewis Parker's avatar

Curious to see where you go with this. Today the real subversive aktion seems today the province of the far right. Their provocations and perversions use the same ‘irony’. Only it’s antisemitism and misogyny they play with.

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