Looking for the future : a personal connection to yesterday's great expectations, today's reality, and tomorrow's hope / Leon Wofsy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oakland, CA : I W Rose Press : Institute for Social and Economic Studies, c1995.Description: x, 148 pages : black and white photographs ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0964466708
  • 9780964466708
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HX 84 .W59 A38 1995
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Contents:
I. Where I've traveled: 1. Born red -- 2. Second time around -- 3. Into the sixties -- 4. Berkeley after the storm --
II. Retrospective on the communist journey: 5. Sides -- 6. USSR: The road after October -- 7. USSR: Lost last chance -- 8. Communists of the USA --
III. New terrain: 9. Not the same old world -- 10. Changing politics in the USA -- 11. Genes and destiny.
Subject: "...Our image of a better world in birth was treated rudely by 20th century reality. The noblest, but also some of the basest, endowments of human experience found expression in the movement that pioneered socialist revolution in our time...Does the experience of my generation's years lead somewhere? Is current reality, however removed from early dreams, the serious beginning of a transition to a better world? That is what I want to explore in this book. I want to look at how the world and my perceptions of it have changed, and to gain some feeling from where history is heading. This may be 'mission impossible', but the excuse for my journey is not a sense of mission. It is an impulse, born of a lifetime addiction to the future." -- from the forward.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks HX 84 .W59 A38 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML21020023

"The cover photograph is from an anti-apartheid demonstration in 1986 on the Berkeley campus of the University of California." -- title verso.

I. Where I've traveled: 1. Born red -- 2. Second time around -- 3. Into the sixties -- 4. Berkeley after the storm --

II. Retrospective on the communist journey: 5. Sides -- 6. USSR: The road after October -- 7. USSR: Lost last chance -- 8. Communists of the USA --

III. New terrain: 9. Not the same old world -- 10. Changing politics in the USA -- 11. Genes and destiny.

"...Our image of a better world in birth was treated rudely by 20th century reality. The noblest, but also some of the basest, endowments of human experience found expression in the movement that pioneered socialist revolution in our time...Does the experience of my generation's years lead somewhere? Is current reality, however removed from early dreams, the serious beginning of a transition to a better world? That is what I want to explore in this book. I want to look at how the world and my perceptions of it have changed, and to gain some feeling from where history is heading. This may be 'mission impossible', but the excuse for my journey is not a sense of mission. It is an impulse, born of a lifetime addiction to the future." -- from the forward.

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