Remembering Tomorrow: From SDS to Life After Capitalism: A MemoirIn this lucid political memoir, veteran anti-capitalist activist Michael Albert offers an ardent defense of the project to transform global inequality. Albert, a uniquely visionary figure, recounts a life of uncompromising commitment to creating change one step at a time. Whether chronicling the battles against the Vietnam War, those waged on Boston campuses, or the challenges of creating living, breathing alternative social models, Albert brings a keen and unwavering sense of justice to his work, pointing the way forward for the next generation. |
Contents
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5 Star Gazing 57 | 64 |
6 Why Do It? 77 | 89 |
7 Campus Organizing 84 | 97 |
8 Big Man on Campus 92 | 106 |
17 What about Class? 187 | 212 |
18 Sixties People and Books 194 | 220 |
Part 3 Channeling Walking Butterflies 204 | 231 |
20 Tech Tooling Harvard Ed 205 | 232 |
21 Becoming an Economist 209 | 236 |
22 The Responsibility of Intellectuals 222 | 250 |
23 Prison School? 231Part 4 Tomorrows Seeds Today 235 | 260 |
24 Redefining Publishing 236 | 269 |
9 Heating Up and Melting Down 96 | 112 |
10 Bean Town 113 | 130 |
11 Washington Bullets 123 | 141 |
12 Bread and Roses 139 | 159 |
13 Lydia and Life 148 | 168 |
14 The Action Faction 162 | 184 |
15 The Black Panthers 174 | 197 |
16 Black Like Who? 179 | 203 |
25 Monthly Z 275 | 313 |
26 Going Cyber 294 | 337 |
27 Alternative Media 305Part 5 Mind Trips 310 | 352 |
28 Pomo What Is It Good For? 311 | 359 |
29 Better Flakes 315 | 367 |
30 Principia Utopia 334 | 393 |
31 Preconditions 376 | 441 |
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Page 1 - IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HEAR about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
Page 34 - What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Page 12 - ... right to shamefulness. And others will make of it that I sound mighty anti-American. To these, I say: Don't blame me for that! Blame those who mouthed my liberal values and broke my American heart. Just who might they be, by the way? Let's take a brief factual inventory of the latter-day Cold War. In 1953, our Central Intelligence Agency managed to overthrow Mossadegh in Iran, the complaint being his neutralism in the Cold War and his plans to nationalize the country's oil resources to improve...
Page 34 - If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time!