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from a position perhaps somewhat different from my colleagues here.

I come to it looking for an insight into the origins of my own political consciousness.

modes of political thought. Mailer describes for us the tangle of

“Communist, Trotskyist, Splinter Marxist, Union Organizer, or plain Social

of their own movement into the hundred final slivers of American Marxism,

miniscule radical sects complete each with their own special martyred

of the Labor Movement, in which “Communists and Trotskyites, Splinterites,

and Reutherites ultimately came to sit closer to the Mafia than to

who were finally indifferent to the blockhouse polemics of the past,  

and the real nature of the Soviet. It was the real injustice in America which attracted

It is a genealogy of the New Left that, if we wish to understand who we are

as Liberals and Radicals in America today, we need to master in its details.

<blockquote> Night was on. The demonstrators were entering the last few hours of their march on the Pentagon. They were tired, exceptionally tired, they felt vulnerable—their aggression, their ability even to defend themselves now used up by endless calls over the hours for more adrenaline; yes, the mood was pacifistic,almost saintly, but very weak. In the night, they were all close to

We are seeing, here, a great American writer at the height of his powers.  

the allied bombing of Germany during World War II, ''The Natural History of Destruction''. In it, if I may simplify somewhat, Sebald suggests that the truth or falsehood of a description of historical event is not to be judged by the

number of facts or witnesses but by the integrity and poetry of the language

durable case for the supremacy of the novelist’s empathetic imagination

over, the “mere recitation of facts.”

Pentagon ''On The Armies of the Night'' .”

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