[lbo-talk] Re: Professor Lisa at Tortilla Flats

[Jerry Monaco]

"Living anarchism day to day, the revolutionaries created what Green calls
"an alternative intellectual and moral world." There were socialist lectures
for adults and socialist Sunday schools for children, and also socialist
picnics, polkas, choruses, and saloons. Drama clubs produced such plays as
"The Proletarian's Daughter." Every spring, the anniversary of the Paris
Commune was celebrated in gymnasiums festooned with scarlet banners. Parsons
edited an English-language newspaper, the Alarm, which wobbled between
weekly and fortnightly, for economic reasons. The city also had a Czech
anarchist newspaper, Budoucnost, and a trio of German ones: the
Arbeiter-Zeitung came out every weekday, the Vorbote on Saturday, and the
Fackel on Sunday."

CALEB CRAIN What happened at Haymarket.
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/060313crbo_books

On 4/7/06, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 4/7/06, BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> > Dear list:
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> But any cultural ranking is arbitrary.  Some people
> love Brahms and some love Kander and Ebb.  How
> can anyone say defintively that one resides on a
> higher cultural level than the other?
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 In response to BklynMagus I concluded in a previous post:

What interests me is not the Utopianism of these views, but the idea that
> the "working class opposition" must teach itself, and that it is one of the
> responsibilities of writers, artists, scientists, who choose to be on the
> side of the "working class" to engage in this self-education.  Thus there
> were workers libraries, study groups, schools, etc., and these institutions
> were supposed to be "organic", connected to unions and neighborhoods.  They
> were also supposed to be oppositional.
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Then I read this review of "Death in the Haymarket" (Pantheon; $26.95) by
James Green @ The New Yorker  -
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/060313crbo_books

It contains this quote above  -
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