Mass middle class movements in any period take on a direction that depends on the militance of the working class. In periods of working class quiescence and organizational weakness � conditions of the semi- defeat � mass middle class movements take on a radically antigovernment character even while proceeding an primitive and contradictory slogans. In periods of working class militance, the middle class becomes fascist, as everyone knows. A socialist's orientation concerning the middle class mass movements of the day, should any exist, is determined by this historical inverted relationship between the working class and the middle class. What isn't well understood � at least I didn't understood it until yesterday � is that the 60s radicalization was a middle-class movement which took on a mass character because of the conservatism of the working class. It proceeded on left-liberal and radical slogans, expressing the strength of the labor aristocracy and its ties to the middle class, but it _could_ become radical precisely _because_ the working class wasn't. This of course is the opposite of what I thought back then. The Healyite view was that the radical middle class was a distorted _expression_ off the underlying radicalization of the workers. [I never quite understood how this worked. The workers were radicalizing, but the only sign of this radicalization was magically/ mystically transmitted to the working class, much like sherlock claims the demoralization resulting from the alleged complete defeat of the Russian workers, magically transmitted to the consciousness of unknowing American workers, while absent from the site of its propagation. {After all, fascism is revolution against socialism. Where's the Russian fascism?}] The 60s radicalization was a middle class mass movement, focally against the draft, possible only because the working class was yet deeply conservative. Many conclusions follow, not the least of which that the lessons of the 60s � if there are any � can be applied to the middle class movements of today, which may (unfortunately) dominate the political scene in the U.S. srd