Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Suppose that you are really interested in the subject of revolutionary socialism. What questions about it do you think would be worth asking in the United States today, when no one -- the least of all, revolutionary socialists -- envisions any revolution happening today or any time soon?
Question: Is there any way to prepare the ground? Can we take notes from the methods of the fundamentalists and say, infiltrate the educational system? Can we take the most intelligent, well educated, committed people we have and commit a generation of them to educating many generations of students ...not to indoctrinate them, but to make them aware that there can be many "futures" and to give them the skills to organize themselves and articulate their vision of a socialist ...human future?
Joanna
On the cultural front, I think that both Marxists and non-Marxists who are sympathetic to the Marxist tradition and found Marxist theory useful in some way have done a first-rate job, and libraries and the Internet are chockful of good things for budding left-wing intellectuals, organizers, and activists to read (plus, we have useful and important things to read that had been produced before the emergence of Marxism). Even if I devoted all my life to reading, I wouldn't be able to read all I wanted to read -- I would manage to get to perhaps one millionth of all the interesting stuff out there. And that's not even counting wonderful things written in languages that I can't read at all. Left-wingers have done a great job in visual arts such as cinema as well. More people will pick them up than they do now if and when they come to need them. -- Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>
