Each postwar generation erases the political memory of the one before it.

Evidence

It is, however, easier to understand Kramer’s move here when the political project of The New Criterion is clarified; for the mission of the journal is clearly to eradicate the sixties itself and what remains of its legacy, to consign that whole period to the kind of oblivion which the fifties was able to devise for the thirties, or the twenties for the rich political culture of the pre-World War I era. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 181

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the pattern of generational cultural repression, echoing Jameson’s broader periodization argument about how cultural dominants cycle — relevant to the reader’s goal of testing whether the cultural-dominant thesis is falsifiable. — connects to: The 1968 generation’s disillusionment followed the events’ modernizing logic — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 610; Expellee memory journeys systematically scrubbed out political and economic hardships. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 841; Political memory is selectively suppressed to erase a history of socialist solidarity. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 57 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The 1968 generation’s disillusionment followed the events’ modernizing logic — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 610; Expellee memory journeys systematically scrubbed out political and economic hardships. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 841; Political memory is selectively suppressed to erase a history of socialist solidarity. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 57 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Political movements weakened by nostalgia for obsolete forms need institutional memory to learn #complicates (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2232