With a little whiskey in water a dear young friend lectured me on " The History of American Trotskyism "Discussion on World Socialist Web Site • 8 comments

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These were stereotypes to be sure, but WOMEN and HOMOSEXUALS once had a prevailing KIND & GENTLE souls public image until the rise of bourgeois feminism.

            I am not impressed with women or gay people in military uniforms or cop uniforms . As I was not impressed by a certain now disgraced Catholic priest who told a reactionary Catholic TV audience that " Mother Mary wears combat boots " ( Here a primal Jungian religious image is soiled ) .

            In the 50s and 60s many " alienated " gay individuals shared Beat poet Ginsberg's horror of the American capitalist social order expressed in his revolutionary poem " Howl ".

               My closest friend in the " Tumultuous 60s " era was a young gay person 17 years old at the time. What could this friend be but a flaming rebel -opposed to war and capitalism and ALL kinds of oppression? A glass of ice cold water with a teaspoon of whiskey in it inspired him to lecture me in the kitchen on " The History of American Trotskyism ", according to one James P. Cannon. Where he is today I am not sure, but I honor his memory.