******************** 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. *****************************************************************
While Barbara and Phil were leading figures in an opposition group in the US SWP, and later in the Class Struggle League, this interview covers a wide area of ground. They talk about what it was like growing up in the 1950s and into the early 1960s - the socio-cultural and political changes from the civil rights to rock music and the Beats - how they came to get involved in politics in the early 60s, how/why they joined the SWP and then the process of their disillusionment with it,their experiences of being an oppositional minority, problems of democracy and democratic centralism (and the lack of them), how this panned out, their lives since they abandoned active political work, their politics today (their principles remain unchanged) and their views of US politics at present. I conducted the interview over a couple of months and very much enjoyed talking to them. They are very fine people. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/18/when-revolution-was-in-the-air-barbara-gregorich-and-phil-passen-interviewed/ Phil _________________________________________________________ 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
