The Soapbox Issue 30

The Editors


Why Can’t All Our Letters Be Like This

The 1968 issue is the best one you have produced since the one on the Civil War — which I regard as a classic. Every article I have read has been excellent. I was especially glad to see in the article on SDS that quotes an SDSer from Texas on the experience of a generation of members who hailed from hostile backgrounds. SDS had already flamed out before I began my journey to radical politics with the October 1969 Mobilization against the war in Vietnam. But I was a product of small town Missouri, and the Texas SDSer told the truth.

Red Diaper babies inherited their politics. But we had to fight for ours. A donation is on its way to your foundation.

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