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Personally you're detached from the organized left?

There are members of the organized left that are inside the union and I know them, but I'm pretty much detached. Yes. I found another home, so to speak. It's not an organized home, but --

One last question on this. Do you follow any of the debates inside the organized left at all? Does it matter to you what position what the party has taken on thus and so?

No, not really. Sometimes I ask what's the position, just to know. When you say the organized left, you mean the Communist Party?

Predominantly, although there's other things happening, you know.

They're pretty much irrelevant. Their positions sometimes are weird, because they have their own problems. I'm always interested in the views of what happened in those days, of the past, as people write about it and talk about it. I have many friends who are from the old left and who go back way earlier than I do. I see them and we talk from time to time about all kinds of things.

Should we stop?

Let's make a note someplace to know where we ended.

I have a pretty clear sense of where we've ended. Yes.

We ended right before the Charleston strike.

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