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corrected link for Paul Buhle's book review https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/08/who-would-believe-it-annals-of-the-new-left-era/ On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:45 AM Alan Ginsberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Counterpunch book review, Jan. 8, 2019 > > "Of the various factions that sundered the Students for a Democratic > Society at its most promising moment, 1969, when it had perhaps a hundred > thousand student members and followers, the Progressive Labor Party is the > one that has seemed to have fallen out of history. Apart from pretty > uniformly unfriendly descriptions in various historical accounts, “PL” (as > known to all, friend or foe) has had no talented memoirist, no extended > documentary film treatment, and apparently no faithful members who could > stick with it and make much of a claim for its value beyond the early > 1970s. > > "Here, at last, is such a work. Although privately published, *You Say > You Want a Revolution* has a chance in today’s fluid book market to reach > thousands of old-timers and even young radicals with something far better > than a “message.” The reminiscences in here are deeply personal, often > deeply local, and offer just the kind of text that tells us how politics > was lived, not written about by the intellectuals, or about the leaders who > are remembered, while followers are forgotten. On those grounds alone, it’s > a worthy book." > > full at ttps:// > www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/08/who-would-believe-it-annals-of-the-new-left-era/ > > > > > _________________________________________________________ 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
