Sunday, December 8, 2024
Being 79 now, pfffft...where did the time go? I was just thinking about Eric Hoffer, the "longshoreman philosopher". He worked on the San Francisco waterfront for over 20 years, and became famous when he published his first? book in 1951.
Being a Union person/worker, retired, I've always been fascinated by the man. -
https://keep.google.com/#NOTE/1I3cMyfRQhy75NeJ_WW5XeSBgC8X5DuCv7fc3LfOttclI2JtQVgIWS3KOkWUEm0g -
the last sentence: -
"Scholars of Hoffer (generally conservatives themselves) inevitably note his working-class bonafides, but they don’t mention or analyze the irony of his membership in the leftist ILWU. In that way, they’re similar to all those, Hoffer included, who forgot that the labor movement brought us the weekend and much more."
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