-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [silk] Why I Gave Up On 'Social Activism' Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 08:12:22 -0400 From: John Sundman <[email protected]> To: [email protected]
Well, one thing about Yoginder Sikand evidently hasn't changed: he evidently still loves to hear himself talk. I didn't finish reading the whole thing; it was too tedious. I'm curious as to whether he would have considered any of the following people "social activist" types, and whether they had any impact: Thomas Jefferson Rosa Parks Thomas Paine Mahatma Gandhi Martin Luther King, Jr Abraham Lincoln Benjamin Franklin Nelson Mandela Rose Styron Daniel Elsberg But I'm not curious enough to keep reading. He reminds me of Jerry Rubin, an American self-proclaimed advocate for "the revolution" and "marginalized people", famous as one of the "Chicago 7" who were put on trail for raising a ruckus during the 1968 Democratic Party in protest against, among other things, the US War on Viet Nam. The protests provoked a police riot. In the 1980's Jerry Rubin "saw the light" much in the manner of Sikand, and became a proponent of capitalism and the "greed is good" ethos of the "me decade." jrs
