Making Sense of the Class Dynamics of the Early Vietnam Antiwar Movement.

This paper analyzes why the early Vietnam antiwar movement in the United States grew within a middle class milieu and oriented itself towards a middle class audience, initially without great participation from or interest in either organized or unorganized workers in the US. To understand why that was the case, it's not sufficient to examine the extant peace networks, early mobilizing structures, or antiwar frames used by the early movement, though each of these played important roles. Rather, these proximate causes of the movement's middle class base need to be seen in light of the longer-term cultural, political and economic shifts taking place in the US during the post war era. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]