I've been reading THE BURGLARY and just came to the pages about the SWP. The book reminds me of a lot of things happening in the 1970s. Lots of redundant passages but gripping never-the-less.
Gene On Jan 11, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Ever since the Militant went online, I’ve made a point of skimming > through it looking for obits. I have zero interest in the group’s > politics but have remained curious about what happened to people I knew > in the sixties, especially since our generation is increasingly > vulnerable to the sorts of geriatric illnesses that take you down for > good. Of course, the law of diminishing returns applies here since the > group has shrunk to such an alarming degree. Even when it was larger, it > was likely that the people I really cared about would never get an obit > since they had become unpersons like Peter Camejo. The only way an > ex-member could rate an obit was if they were number one not an “enemy” > of the party, and number two someone who had contributed time and money > to keep the sect-cult afloat. > > Pat Grogan was one of those people. > > full: > http://louisproyect.org/2015/01/11/pat-grogan-the-swp-and-the-hoboken-waterfront/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
