I suppose I started this quest when I was in high school, which was in New York City during the Second World War. My family was very politically conscious, and world affairs were always being discussed in our home. The fight against Nazism and fascism was our primary concern, and long before Pearl Harbor. We were also very conscious of the great split in the world left, that between the Second and Third Internationals. Even in the muted atmosphere of the unity brought about by wartime, the issues that divided the two Internationals were salient, and they were reflected for me at a local level by the political differences in New York State between the Liberal Party and the American Labor Party. When I entered Columbia College in 1947, the most vibrant political organization on campus during my freshman year was the American Veterans Committee (AVC). And although I was too young to have been a veteran, I would attend the public meetings of the AVC, and saw that it was torn apart (and destroyed) by this same split.
I suppose I started this quest when I was in high school, which was in New York City during the Second World War. My family was very politically conscious, and world affairs were always being discussed in our home. The fight against Nazism and fascism was our primary concern, and long before Pearl Harbor. We were also very conscious of the great split in the world left, that between the Second and Third Internationals. Even in the muted atmosphere of the unity brought about by wartime, the issues that divided the two Internationals were salient, and they were reflected for me at a local level by the political differences in New York State between the Liberal Party and the American Labor Party. When I entered Columbia College in 1947, the most vibrant political organization on campus during my freshman year was the American Veterans Committee (AVC). And although I was too young to have been a veteran, I would attend the public meetings of the AVC, and saw that it was torn apart (and destroyed) by this same split.
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