Mark
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Max Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote:
> I came to college as a right-wing liberal in '67 thinking I would join
> ROTC, got radicalized by my freshman comp professor who was a recent
> Berkeley Ph.D. (He was kind of an a-hole; got thrown out of the
> department, went on to write some big books. Name was Peter Manso.
> You can google him.) Later he got me into Norman Mailer's New York
> City mayoral campaign, another step in the process. I decided to major
> in English instead of math. Rutgers English dept was also the home of
> Partisan Review, at one time a great radical publication. The big
> issues were race and the war. I came to radical politics via PR &
> modern fiction (Mailer, Burroughs, Heller, Baldwin) and beat poetry.
> But for politics I would have gone to grad school in English lit (got
> into Washington U/St Loo and U of Iowa or Indiana, forget which) and
> probably would have spent my life as an old fogie ranting about
> semiotics, post-structuralism, cultural studies, etc.
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> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:26 PM, John Treat <johntreat at lavabit.com> wrote:
> > I've always skewed leftish, however haltingly and imperfectly, but LBO
> talk is mostly responsible for any real radicalization I've experienced (and
> continue to experience). I've lurked for maybe a year, basically since
> googling across Doug's interview with James Howard Kunstler after hearing
> the latter on local radio here (South Africa). Have remained quite in awe of
> having the opportunity to listen in on many of the discussions here, and
> have followed and tried to absorb as many of the links as I could find time
> for. Have done lots of leftish things in my life (organizing farmers in
> Bosnia after the war, working against GBV in sub-Saharan Africa, defending
> rights of association and expression globally) but largely on intuition and
> without an adequate theoretical grounding. Still learning, but already
> profoundly grateful, especially to Doug, shag, SA, Carrol, MPerelman, and
> B&N.
> >
> >
> > On 04 May 2010, at 2:11 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> >
> >> stories of how your consciousness was raised please!
> >>
> >> shag
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> >> ('coz there's 5 million ways to kill a CEO)
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