[lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Tue Aug 1 21:01:09 PDT 2006


Jim Straub wrote:


> of them who lived closer to the college lefty town of Yellow
> Springs, where antioch is. When we'd drive through yellow springs
> and see the 'infoshop' and noon
> peace demos with three old hippies, we'd shake our heads and be glad we
> were talking to workers all day instead of talking about them in a
> labor studies class or whatever.

Appearances can deceive. Antioch is a work-study college - half the time, students are off campus, scattered around the globe, doing real-world internships. And those labor studies classes are where the activists of the future are being trained and, hopefully, learn a bit about the centuries-long fight against capitalism.

-- DRR (Antioch alum)



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