Guilty As Hell. Free As A Bird.

I've Said For Thirty Years That Capitalism Is An Exhausted System. But Now You Can See The Handwriting Everywhere. And One Especially Horrifying Part Is The Fiscal Crisis.

The Great Example, The Killer Example In History, Is Of Course Abraham Lincoln, The Great Emancipator. Read His Speeches. Read The Debates. Wendell Phillips Called Him "the Great Slaver From Illinois."

Now Teach-ins Are Fairly Common Or They Become Common Place. But In 1965, The Students For Democratic Society In Ann Harbor Organized The First Teach-in. The Way It Happened Was That We Were Advocating For A Strike That We Advocated That The Faculty Should Strike In Solidarity With The Vietnamese Struggle.

I Wish I Knew As Much About Anything Today As I Knew About Everything When I Was Twenty.

One Question Is: Who Is The Working Class Today, And How Has It Changed? Where Are We In That? I Don't Have A Knee-jerk Kind Of 1930s Thing About We Must Build The Unions And That's The Way To The Future. I'm Writing This Book Right Now Called Pallin' Around, And The Subtitle Is: "talking To The Tea Party." And Frankly I Find Talking To The Tea Party Exhilarating, I Love It.