"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
--Ramsey Kanaan, Publisher PM Press/noir enthusiast
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The only difference is the people knew who the enemy was, maybe as a consequence of the draft. Today people think their enemies are the victims of capital. Ending the draft was perhaps the most successful and devious act ever committed by the status quo.
Richard Nixon ended the draft with the expectation that this would cause the antiwar movement to decline, which indeed pretty much happened. Also, he expected that a "volunteer" army would make it easier politically to fight imperialist wars in the future, as opposed to reliance upon a conscript army. Nixon was evil but he was no dope.
Great reading. Good job Ron.
Thank you.
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