There was no question in certain quarters about how to respond a hundred-plus years ago. Many forward-looking, left-wing publications from the 1800s and early 1900s remain incredibly inspiring, inspired, and much of it reads very, very contemporaneously: The Masses, The Liberator, The New Masses, Appeal to Reason, Mother Earth, The Coming Nation, The National Era, New National Era…
Great work has been done putting these remarkable journals online, freely accessible to all. Some of these periodicals, newsletters and magazines, were created during what might be considered the most socialist age of America, in a long arc of enlightenment and human rights thinking and action. Lots of insight and inspiration there very useful for today. Lots of inspired intellectual activity, including artistic activity.
Don't get burned, friend, we need your mind for the long struggle, the real one. (as for your beef, never have I been happier to not belong at all to that superficial and cutthroat world of the literary establishment for which I am and will happily continue to be a nobody). Te quiero y sí, me preocupo por ti y por tu mente de la que he aprendido tanto, tantísimo, estás por ahí en todos mis libros de alguna manera.
This seems rather vague. The only thing that clearly comes across is a feeling of dissatisfaction. With what exactly? What is it you want to forge? For some reason that metaphor does not seem so helpful because it reminds of toughening, hardening, of weapons. But then I’m not so familiar with the American context.
Good thoughts, Jeffrey.
There was no question in certain quarters about how to respond a hundred-plus years ago. Many forward-looking, left-wing publications from the 1800s and early 1900s remain incredibly inspiring, inspired, and much of it reads very, very contemporaneously: The Masses, The Liberator, The New Masses, Appeal to Reason, Mother Earth, The Coming Nation, The National Era, New National Era…
Great work has been done putting these remarkable journals online, freely accessible to all. Some of these periodicals, newsletters and magazines, were created during what might be considered the most socialist age of America, in a long arc of enlightenment and human rights thinking and action. Lots of insight and inspiration there very useful for today. Lots of inspired intellectual activity, including artistic activity.
Don't get burned, friend, we need your mind for the long struggle, the real one. (as for your beef, never have I been happier to not belong at all to that superficial and cutthroat world of the literary establishment for which I am and will happily continue to be a nobody). Te quiero y sí, me preocupo por ti y por tu mente de la que he aprendido tanto, tantísimo, estás por ahí en todos mis libros de alguna manera.
Gracias, amigo. No me voy a quemar. Haré como el tipo en la foto y usaré guantes :).
This seems rather vague. The only thing that clearly comes across is a feeling of dissatisfaction. With what exactly? What is it you want to forge? For some reason that metaphor does not seem so helpful because it reminds of toughening, hardening, of weapons. But then I’m not so familiar with the American context.
Forge new institutions, a new institutional culture, refashion our existing ones. People can forge tools, not just weapons.