Hugo B: Yes, Mr. P., we don’t have the luxury of waiting around for the Messiah. We humble folks of the working class need proactivity. The problem I have with The Left is that when I attended a recent function, the average age was deceased! It reminded me more of a loopy Theosophy Meeting I attended in Chicago in the late 70′s with weird looking older people, some with strangely unkempt hair and bizarre offbeat attire. I’m thinking to myself, is this the vanguard?
--- Jim: Dear Hugo B. You are obviously not in touch with the contemporary US revolutionary left, made up almost entirely of people under 35 -- in other words, the generation subjected to one of the most radical periods of transferring social costs onto the backs of the working class. Our generation faces a situation of despair, ruin, indebtedness, political nihilism, old-folks-cynicism, mainstream political cretinism, and no future. You would benefit greatly by contacting the student, youth, people of color, and young working class movement in your local city. What you might find is in fact a vibrant undercurrent of dignity facing a situation that your generation, weaned on the massive capitalist high growth of the 50s, did not have to contend with. The "humble folks of the working class" are the young black, brown, yellow, red, and white youth on your streets today. Go meet them - they're everywhere. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
