[lbo-talk] academic labor geeks etc.

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 1 14:18:50 PDT 2006


Jim Straub wrote:


>The elan that moved generations of earlier revolutionaries to build
>a core of radical autoworkers in detroit,
>move to youngstown to organize in steel in the 30s, do radical stuff
>like voter reg in missippi in the 60s,

There's also the question of what you're good at. This is Mike Davis from a 1998 profile:


>As much as he wants to change the world, though, Davis is wary,
>wondering when he'll find time to write books. "I spent most of my
>life thinking I was an organizer," he muses, "but looking back
>soberly, I see I was a rotten organizer, and I'm still a rotten
>organizer. It's been nice in the last seven or eight years to find
>some competence in something."

http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/jeremiah-among-the-palms/7227/



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