Staughton Lynd: Right.
Rob Kall: "...Calls 'Below and to the Left', and
thereby give the President some excuse to do what, in his heart of hearts, he
no doubt often would really like to do; but this is not our highest priority. Our most urgent objective is not to give
someone else the authority to act on our behalf, our greatest need is not to
hand over to somebody other than ourselves the responsibility to remake the
world. No! We need to remake the world
ourselves, right now, from Below and to the Left. I am appalled at the poverty of imagination
that has been shown in the last thirty years."
I'm going to leave with that.
What do you mean by "Right now, from Below and to the left"?
Staughton Lynd: Well, what I mean is that, if you think of
the early 1960s when John Kennedy was elected President, there was a Civil
Rights movement, Below and to the Left.
To the Left in the sense that neither one of the Kennedy brothers did
much about Civil Rights for the first couple of years. But there was a movement in the South, and
people would call the Justice Department collect from some local jail in
the middle of the night. You know, They
had John Doar's number, or Burke Marshall's number (laughs), and they harassed
those guys!
I
think it is the greatest failing of what I might describe as "Our new movement"
that we don't have that kind of presence that brings pressure. Now, I think it's developing somewhat. It's better in Obama's second term than in
his first; but no President can get very far with [it]. It's like the trade union leader who wants to
be able to look out the window and say, "Well, personally I might agree with
you, but if I took that out there they'd tear me to pieces,and therefore
(laughs), you know, we're standing firm, we're demanding so and so." I think we need to recreate that dynamic
where the Obama's of this world are subject to constant pressure from the rest
of us.
Rob Kall: That's a good place to leave it. This is the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show. I've been speaking with Staughton Lynd. If you've just caught the end of this, the
podcast will be available at Opednews.com/Podcasts , or go to my name, Rob
Kall, at iTunes, and you can download it there.
Staughton, do you have a website that would like people to know about,
or anything else that you want to say?
Staughton Lynd: Well, I'm sort of computer stupid, but my
email address is salynd@aol.com .
S-A, that's for Staughton and Alice, L-Y-N-D, at AOL, and I'd be interested in
hearing from anyone.
Rob Kall: OK. Hang on a second, though. That's about the end of where the on air part
of the radio show goes, but for the podcast we can keep this going, and I wanted
to ask you a couple more questions.
Staughton Lynd: OK.
Five minutes worth. (laughs)
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