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I have been so busy that I haven't weighed in on this until now, but I think The North Star or anything like it is meaningless if we are not, at least in part, a voice for those struggling to find their voice. What the article discusses is what I hear regularly from students--often in the same language. I could despair at the clumsiness of expression or the incomplete character of their thoughts. But I am tickled to death that capitalism is continuing to recruit and train its own gravediggers. It gives me more than a little hope that it will continue to do so after we are all gone. At some point, we really need to confront thefailure of the Boomers to pass on the essential lessons we got had coming out of the radicalization of the 1960s and 1970s. Whenever I see young people stumbling for understanding or trying to figure out how to have a demonstration, I get very flustered with them, but hopefully show it rarely. The real question is where the hell were the grey-haired activists who were supposed to help them learn to walk. Where were the Boomers when Occupy was being led off like lambs to the slaughter, eh? And don't get me started about BLM or the Greens. :-) ML On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Gulf Mann via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Very apt, T. > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Thomas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > "Great minds have great faults." > > > > Lord Macaulay; History Of England from the Accession Of James II [1848] > > > > T > > > > -----Original Message----- > > >From: Gulf Mann via Marxism <[email protected]> > > >Sent: Dec 1, 2016 4:50 PM > > >To: Thomas F Barton <[email protected]> > > >Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fwd: No concern for the opposition > > > > > >It is true, Bill, that sometime Louis's 3-pointers fall out of bounds, > > >carried a bit too far by his tendency for sarcasm. But, overall, he is a > > >good trooper. > > > > > >On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:28 PM, William Quimby via Marxism < > > >[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >> > > >> Louis, that was a pretty shitty comment. > > >> > > >> - Bill > > >> > > > > >> > > >_________________________________________________________ > > >Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > > >Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > > options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net > > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/markalause%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
