The writer is correct about the social " electricity " of PRINTED communications. I recall visiting the Brown campus circa 1970 with my very working class Washington Park neighborhood friend . He handed me pamphlets and the socialist newspaper " The Militant " back then being distributed by the Brown University Young Socialist Alliance ( YSA )
There was also some right wing competition in hand outs : from YAF , Young Americans for Freedom ".
My 17 year old friend, Ron Marshall, listened to a fascinating lecture ( for him a Providence factory worker) on the labor theory of value-given by a young " Trot " who afterwards drove off in a cool jaguar. Later Ron lectured me at my California Ave. home on the " History of American Trotskyism ", a book by James P. Cannon. A teaspoon of whiskey in a glass of cold water loosened his tongue.
CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS is very precarious at elite universities. But there should be a ferment of challenging IDEAS .
The YSA " educated " my young friend Ron Marshall
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