The Soapbox Issue 30


Why Can’t All Our Letters Be Like This

The 1968 issue is the best one you have produced since the one on the Civil War — which I regard as a classic. Every article I have read has been excellent. I was especially glad to see in the article on SDS that quotes an SDSer from Texas on the experience of a generation of members who hailed from hostile backgrounds. SDS had already flamed out before I began my journey to radical politics with the October 1969 Mobilization against the war in Vietnam. But I was a product of small town Missouri, and the Texas SDSer told the truth.

Red Diaper babies inherited their politics. But we had to fight for ours. A donation is on its way to your foundation.

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