For Now

For Now C. H. SIMONDS

Suddenly the blue-collar worker, the hardhat, the “white ethnic,” hopped out of the pocket of COPE and the Democratic Party and began to raise hell. He voted for Wallace and dug Agnew; he beat up on flag-dese- crators (real and imagined); he stopped believing what he read in the papers. All this hastened the growth of anti- proletarian feeling on the intellectual Left. Elitist revolutionaries were snuggled up to, nonproductive counterculture types were romanticized while the workingman was mocked in the Village Voice and New York Review of Books, and savaged in confections like the movie Joe.

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For Now C. H. SIMONDS

Suddenly the blue-collar worker, the hardhat, the “white ethnic,” hopped out of the pocket of COPE and the Democratic Party and began to raise hell. He voted for Wallace and dug Agnew; he beat up on flag-dese- crators (real and imagined); he stopped believing what he read in the papers. All this hastened the growth of anti- proletarian feeling on the intellectual Left. Elitist revolutionaries were snuggled up to, nonproductive counterculture types were romanticized while the workingman was mocked in the Village Voice and New York Review of Books, and savaged in confections like the movie Joe.