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Article: Was It Good for You?(political movements should be emotionally engaging)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Over the last ninety years of this magazine's existence, many thousands of people whose ideas were generally in tune with it have marched, rallied, sat-in, struck, petitioned, organized, and otherwise struggled for progressive social change. Other writers, perhaps in this very issue, can ponder the question of what was actually accomplished, through all this effort and agitation, in the way of laws passed, wars averted, and conditions of life improved. Here I take up a question less commonly asked about the activists of the twentieth century: Did they have a good time doing what they did?
All right, this may sound like a frivolous, even air-headed, concern, but ...