How I got redder and redder

If you think capitalism is one big atrocity, it makes sense to organize with people who think so too.

How I got redder and redder - by Joel Reinstein, Ann Arbor, Michigan
October 27, 2015

ONE OF my first political memories is of being in my parents' bedroom, listening to something about Bill Clinton and George Bush on the radio. My parents explained to me that Clinton was the good guy and Bush was racist, and from then on out, I was ready to go.

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I've changed my mind a little since then. From reading horrifying investigative reports in Harper's magazine and Mother Jones to bewildering conversations with enigmatic older friends – one told me "public schools were created so workers could read instruction manuals," and I thought he was a right-winger – to classes in feminist philosophy and Afrocentric pedagogy with a proudly socialist professor, I kept getting redder.

After a couple years as an armchair anarchist, I was standing outside a Coup show when someone invited me to Detroit for an International Socialist Organization meeting. They had an agenda, took stack, spoke with sharp focus, and engaged seriously with the task of organizing to fight police racism in Detroit. It was like they actually intended to overthrow capitalism, to get even instead of mad ...

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