Reprinted with permission of the Guardian, independent radical weekly, NYC One of the most difficult responsibilities of the revolutionary is to be self-critical. To be self-critical means being able to ask yourself if you are wrong, and if so, to …
FE Author: Julius Lester
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
Reprinted with permission of The Guardian, independent radical weekly, NYC The revolutionary process takes many decades to fulfill itself. The generation which finally assumes power gives the appearance of having started a revolution in a short period of time. …
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
Reprinted with permission of The Guardian, independent radical weekly, NYC Of necessity, much of the black and white radical movements have been involved in a cultural revolution. For blacks it has led to an affirmation of blackness, an affirmation of …
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
Reprinted with permission of the Guardian, independent radical weekly, NYC 1968 was the year in which the momentum of the past eight years reached a climax. From the first day of that year, everyone could feel that this year was …
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
White middle-class America now has a President it can call its own. This is the middle-class America of people who have “pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps.” It is the middle-class America of the Puritan virtues of all work …
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
Reprinted with permission of The Guardian, independent radical weekly, NYC. A student movement has its own built-in limitations, both in terms of how much it can do and how much it can understand. In some ways, a student Movement tends …
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
Sometimes it seems that history does, indeed, repeal itself. The mistakes of a radical movement are sometimes repeated several generations later by another radical movement. At other limes, a radical movement will repeat its own mistakes within the same generation. …
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
We look at them, their fat, sagging bellies, hard faces, tight lips, and we despair. It is logical in our eyes that they should support Wallace, for they are ugly and Wallace is ugly and we are beautiful and gentle …
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
Sometimes we are the victims of our own words. At best, words are poor conveyors of information. They are imprecise and must be used with the utmost care if they are to do what we want them to do. When …
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
Reprinted with permission of The Guardian, independent radical weekly, NYC