Originally published at: Staughton Lynd, 1929-2022 | Boing Boing
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Thanks for including obits for Staughton Lynd here. I found out who he was via Chomsky and Zinn. His activist life still inspires continue to do so. During my decade-long autodidact crash course in labor history and REAL American history, it was people like him who kept me sane.
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Because I was educated under capitalist white supremacist colonizer patriarchy , I was not acquainted with Lynd or his work until now. Thanks for rectifying that.
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One thing the obits don’t really capture is how active he remained locally, even well after the time it was reasonable. You could hardly organize a lefty summit or speaker series without someone suggesting they could call him, and he would show pretty often. There are a lot of tears around the city this month and I’m just as sure that he would be calling on all of us to follow Joe Hill’s advice, don’t mourn organize.
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SPELMAN - WITH ONE “L”
Yes, I’m being pedantic.
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Wow, this is very helpful and useful – including the links for further reading. Thanks very much for posting this!
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His parents wrote a classic American sociology text, Middletown.
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