Above all evils like racism must be understood. For centuries humans
hated disease but only began to understand disease when the French
scientist Louis Pasteur began to study germs under the microscope. The
evils of human society also have a rational explanation. There is
nothing natural or permanent about this class divided society that
breeds racism and impoverishes 80 percent of the human race. The ruling
class is that ONE PERCENT economic elite who dominate in every which way
American society. Naturally they think that a world in which they are
on top is the best of all possible worlds.
I suspect nine out of ten Brown professors are as clueless as you are about our class divided society. But the Brown Daily Herald has digitized its archives . In that tumultuous year 1968 many Brown students had become radicalized by the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. They woke up to race and class oppression in American society. Then the Reagan Era, the collapse of the Soviet Union- which did not vindicate the capitalist way of life- and then this endless " war on terrorism " which has dulled CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS in America- taken us back to the stupid patriotism of the Great War- the war to make the world safe for democracy.
If you want some historic insight on CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS , read the socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ' famous anti-war Canton Speech.
If you pay some attention even to that " socialist " Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, you might begin to understand what I am talking about . Show up for work one day with a VOTE SOCIALIST button and you will quickly learn something about our ruling class.
But it is not unlikely that a naive Brown student was just born into it.The American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about his socialist epiphany in his first book " This Side of Paradise ".
I suspect nine out of ten Brown professors are as clueless as you are about our class divided society. But the Brown Daily Herald has digitized its archives . In that tumultuous year 1968 many Brown students had become radicalized by the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. They woke up to race and class oppression in American society. Then the Reagan Era, the collapse of the Soviet Union- which did not vindicate the capitalist way of life- and then this endless " war on terrorism " which has dulled CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS in America- taken us back to the stupid patriotism of the Great War- the war to make the world safe for democracy.
If you want some historic insight on CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS , read the socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ' famous anti-war Canton Speech.
If you pay some attention even to that " socialist " Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, you might begin to understand what I am talking about . Show up for work one day with a VOTE SOCIALIST button and you will quickly learn something about our ruling class.
But it is not unlikely that a naive Brown student was just born into it.The American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about his socialist epiphany in his first book " This Side of Paradise ".
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| College students back in 1968 had a much keener political consciousness |
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