[Xmca-l] Re: Open letter in the Nation

[Annalisa Aguilar]

 Hi Mike,

I hope it's OK for me to redirect your message to the thread subject line... in case others wanted to discuss.

I am glad you found the American University in Paris conference worthwhile. Talk about worldviews! I'm sure there is much content to CHAT about there.

To include Tom Richardson's hue and cry over online learning (which I think is totally valid), this is one way "online learning" is perhaps providing the kind of access that we all believe education should have, that knowledge should be free. Of course, there is a dependency upon having an internet connection and a working, updated computer so as to access this free(ing) knowledge-sharing. But it works.

More on that in another post.

But with regard to the Nation's letter, I was particularly impressed with the photograph of the article, as it does show the unity and foment of all those young minds.This image is a prototypical representation of perezhivanie.

I have to also amuse myself on the distinction between what you call the Old Left and the New Left, and what the Nation letter calls the New New Left and the Old New Left. I suppose the New New Left will one day be the New Old Left?

These distinctions seem to be intended to communicate to the younger ones, "we were young once too, like you, and we also wanted to see change, significant change. We are not against you, but not because we are old."

Is the deciding essential ingredient between the two groups age (as results from lived experience?) or are we discussing wisdom? Can the young be wise?

(or... did Weber's advice work?)

Kind regards,

Annalisa



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mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu>
Wed 5/20/2020 10:20 AM

 Looks relevant and interesting, Annalisa. Thanks for forwarding.

I appreciated the piece in the Nation. Back in the day what is here the Old Left is what I grew up thinking was the New Left. Talk about "seeing life from both sides now!"

I particularly liked their invocation of Weber at the end of the piece.  It seems like advice
very much appropriate to the moment.

mike

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Hello venerable others,

I saw this and thought to pass it on it is from The Nation:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/letter-new-left-biden/__;!!Mih3wA!SKOVcQ19e7v51ETd_qU-HjIerjm9_OYkaFhUTwiRpAL6c6-KB9ihB9M-hn2PXfQ13T8yvw$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/letter-new-left-biden/__;!!Mih3wA!RoL4QwxZfEm2Ued8yEIUru2hvD57XX8vlxvvVfEFARiRZAh6tDi_rSYVTDstuD7-15i8Yg$>

I learned about it from this opinion piece in the NYT here:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/opinion/socialists-support-biden-election.html__;!!Mih3wA!SKOVcQ19e7v51ETd_qU-HjIerjm9_OYkaFhUTwiRpAL6c6-KB9ihB9M-hn2PXfQhMjkwLg$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/opinion/socialists-support-biden-election.html?searchResultPosition=1__;!!Mih3wA!RoL4QwxZfEm2Ued8yEIUru2hvD57XX8vlxvvVfEFARiRZAh6tDi_rSYVTDstuD7v2lLl3A$>

Kind regards,

Annalisa
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