“Only when the individual and the collective realize their indebtedness to each other will we tear down the iron curtain that so divides our collective psyche. As the collective must put everything it possesses into the development of the individual, so must the individual give back to the collective all it has given him. Only [...]
“For four long years,“ Wulf went on to say, “they tried to convince me this way of life is a necessary evil. They almost succeeded until I went to Vietnam, supposedly to stop the spread of Communism, and saw the truth for myself. “It appears they suffer some grand delusion that we are the good [...]
I knew very little about Vietnam, except that US troops were being deployed there to halt the spread of Communism. While I had no qualms with this goal on the surface, underneath I simmered in a pot of emotional uncertainty that seemed to contradict this a priori assertion. At the time, I was unable to [...]
Now the right had amassed for itself a great fortune, with the help of those who were left, or majority of us, in other words. Through one of the biggest pyramid schemes in history, modern capitalism, the right so impoverished the rest of us, that what was left of us organized itself, under the banner [...]
“For four long years,” began my new-found friend, a rebellious intellectual from Boston, Massachusetts, “I’ve struggled against becoming an animal like the rest of these poor bastards. Next week when I walk off this ship for the last time, I’ll have prevailed.” “I know the feeling,” I interjected. “From the first day of my enlistment,” [...]