[lbo-talk] how did you become a lefty

[Mark DeLucas]

The day I realized that the Vietnam War--a thing I'd studied extensively in
college--wasn't merely a piece of stupidity but an atrocity.  That this
didn't occur to me until I was 23 is some sort of tribute to the educational
system.

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:11 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com
> >wrote:
>
> stories of how your consciousness was raised please!
> >
>
> It depends on what you mean by "lefty" and "consciousness." As I resolutely
> insisted at a dinner Ravi organized over Christmas 2008, there is no
> "story"
> behind my politics, other than an ongoing cognitive process through which I
> continually seek to refine my understanding of the world.
>
> If the question is how I became actively involved, though, the answer is
> probably Seattle and the protest scene (and I use the word very
> deliberately) that subsequently arose around labor, ecology, and similar
> issues among the camous set. I was basically in the right place at the
> right
> time.
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
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