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LJ Interests meme results

1. bertolt brecht:
   Fucking amazing playwright. I first read him in my incredible freshman history/humanities class, in high school, with my revered Joe Dunn, ex-Marine "marxist of the heart". Brecht -- in his song lyrics and music and poetry and plays -- is one of the most intransigent, clearest, most inspiring revolutionaries I have ever known of.
2. civil disobedience:
   A tactic I like only when it is mass and moves people by inspiring example, and not when it is a group of habitués who meet at every action and kibbitz about how good this particular jurisdiction is, what the processing is like compared to the last time at Fill In the Blank site. Nevertheless, I've done it twice, and don't regret either time: anti-apartheid twenty years ago and second Gulf War two years ago.
3. direct action:
   Hmm. Well, see above.
4. figure drawing:
   I fucking love figure drawing, and keep trying to find an AFFORDABLE, meaning cheap, outlet for it here in the Bay Area. There's little as meditatively relaxing as drawing a naked person in several poses.
5. jane addams:
   She's wonderful. Okay, she was wonderful. Whatever. Somehow, despite her class background (daughter of an Illinois senator, met Lincoln as a child) AND her project, of importing the Brit "Settlement House" model to the US, she still manages to avoid the whole Philanthropic Benefactress thing. She was nonpartisan, hosted socialists and anarchists when they were viewed as scum by Chicago police after the Haymarket, and tried very hard to overcome her own culture and background in order to understand other people. Plus, it's pretty clear she was a dyke.
6. mama's royal cafe:
   Next door to me. Hipster hangout with good food and high prices. But nice, anyway.
7. pabloism:
   God. Ummm... In the 1950s, some Trots looked at reality and said "why are we trying to be purer than thou when all of marxism is under attack... let's ally with the less crazy more populist of the smaller Communist parties and movements." That was Pablo, aka Michel Raptis. I mostly like it because it stands for questioning orthodoxy.
8. revolution:
   Do I need to explain this? One is necessary. Every fucking day it becomes more necessary.
9. t. s. eliot:
   I never even read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" until two years ago, and I was blown away. It's a little strange to encounter the source of so much popular culture as an adult, though. Yeah, his politics suck. But the poetry.
10. used bookstores:
    Why would I have to explain the appeal of used bookstores? Or of libraries for that matter?

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