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While I admit the accuracy of some of these characterizations, I would qualify them as well. When I joined the Young Socialists I did so with a sense of urgency about what was happening in the world, the Vietnam war being important in this regard. I had been drawn to the New Left, but my contact with them did not offer me an activist group that I could join. I think that something that contributed to our fierce attachment to our ideas was our sense of isolation. We were a small group in a broader society that was either hostile or (more often) indifferent. “Educationals" were sometimes simply a rehearsal of our ideas without much reflection, but sometimes much more stimulating. Educationals, as we called them, were a 20 or 30 minute presentation of some aspect of our ideas, including discussion from the floor. Quoting from a longer piece I wrote elsewhere. “... I overcame my hesitation and joined the Young Socialists in January of 1967. Another factor made my joining somewhat hesitant. I feared that the organization would put an intellectual straitjacket on me. This was a reasonable fear in that some left organizations do promote intellectual conformity. But his was not what I found in the Young Socialists. I found the intellectual life quite engaging. And I'm not the first person to find that a study of Marxism opened up a whole new world. Just one example. About 1968 the International Socialist Review published an article by Rosa Luxembourg on Russian poetry, Luxembourg on Korelenko. If you can find this piece, I'm happy to recommend it." https://www.socialisthistory.ca/Remember/Reminiscences/Hiebert.htm <https://www.socialisthistory.ca/Remember/Reminiscences/Hiebert.htm> ken h _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
