[lit-ideas] Re: The Left Only Exists In Lawrence's Head
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:47:08 -0000
(My mother's father! -- my father's father was probably a Welsh
rural Liberal.)
> My grandfather was a socialist, a Darwinian, atheist, 19th
century materialist. He claimed to have met Eugene Debs
Ah. I can't match that!
>On my tenth birthday, he gave me a year's subscription to a
socialist magazine edited by >Michael Harrington
Of _The Other America_.
>Ah, influence!
Influence is unpredictable. My cousin was taken on Aldermaston
Marches
as a child; my parents weren't politically active; but I was the
one
who joined CND. (I didn't really know anything about Marx,
Fanon,
Sartre..., till I went to university. Spending half my time,
from
the second year on, in the the street where Engels' factory
stood!)
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 12:24 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Left Only Exists In Lawrence's Head
> >>My father's mother was a
>
> member of the British CP, he was one of the many Communists
who, with other "leftists" and also Jewish people (presumably of
varying political persuasion) attended Oswald Mosley's meetings
to heckle them. In London, this coalition beat the fascists off
the streets.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street
>
>
> ______
>
> Bravo, Judy!
>
> My grandfather was a socialist, a Darwinian, atheist, 19th
century materialist. He claimed to have met Eugene Debs. On my
tenth birthday, he gave me a year's subscription to a socialist
magazine edited by Michael Harrington. I inherited his copy of
the Harvard Classics. Then it was time to read Marx, Fanon, and
Sartre (admiring the glossy cinema-verite cover photo on the
paperback version of Sartre's _On Genocide_). Ah, influence!
>
>
> Blank Verse Forbidding Mourning
>
> Have we
> killed
> enough
> Islamists
> today?
> Have we?
> Have we
> killed
> enough
> Islamists
> today?
> No.
>
>
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