https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/15/1958-my-search-for-socialism/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Wed, 23 Sep 2020 01:22:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/15/1958-my-search-for-socialism/#comment-14053 Tue, 13 Aug 2019 02:51:32 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5471#comment-14053 A touching and inspiring memoir, John. Thank you.

]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/15/1958-my-search-for-socialism/#comment-14049 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:36:38 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5471#comment-14049 That’s very moving John. This sort of writing is most valuable as it personalizes what is often dry. I will look forward to more. Oddly, your father taught my father at UofT in the early ’40s. In his memoirs my father mentions a Prof. Riddell teaching him history. R. Gerald Riddell. I now connect the dots. Also oddly, my good fortune in ‘going around back’ to find a treasure trove of reading material consolidated my commitment to revolutionary socialism and Trotskyism. This was a mountain of cast offs dumped out in the open on Bulwer lane behind the LSA/RWL HQ pending a decampment to Montreal. Some of that which I kept was subject of discussion a while ago but I got steeped in the early and mostly lost history of the Canadian movement.

]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/15/1958-my-search-for-socialism/#comment-14047 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 18:15:51 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5471#comment-14047 Fascinating. I look forward to further installments.

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