Esperanto & Anarchism - Xavi Alcalde Examination of the links between Esperanto and the Libertarian movement, and a brief biographical sketch of one of the leading Esperanto speaking Anarchists Eduardo Vivancos.
Esperanto & Anarchism
“Paroli Esperanton estis iam esenca parto de anarkiismo.”
(There was a time when speaking Esperanto was an essential part of being an anarchist.)
When 97-year-old, Barcelona-born Eduardo Vivancos walks down the streets of Toronto where he has lived as an exile since 1954, he never comes across another Esperanto speaker.
However, when he first learned the language in June 1937, in the middle of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, he thought that it was a natural element of the libertarian world.
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Retired admiral held fond memories of USS Oklahoma
Joe Todd
Historian
With COVID-19 precautions in place, historian Joe Todd has been unable to conduct interviews with veterans. This is an interview with retired Rear Adm. Harry Carson, which Todd conducted on Oct. 27, 1988, in New Orleans. The interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Harry Carson was born on Nov. 22, 1902, in Franklin, Louisiana. His father was chaplain of the hospital in the Canal Zone and moved the family to Panama in 1913.
Carson watched the crews working on the canal and was there for the opening before returning to the United States in 1919. He finished high school in Panama and worked for the post office a short while before the family returned to Louisiana.
Friday, Jan 22, 2021 When I first considered myself a socialist revolutionary in 1970, I was hounded by free marketers’ challenge: “name me one country where socialism works”. These market fundamentalists would then hold up the most strident expectations for socialism: Everyone is exactly equal with no classes. There is an abundance of goods which are conveniently circulated. Political rule is not dictatorial. All competition is banished. People are working together, collectively and creatively. The state has withered away. Anything less than this was proof that it didn’t work. Without really understanding how difficult it is to create any of these conditions when surrounded by a sea of capitalist sharks, I was at first intimidated. I was driven away from examining Russia, China and Cuba because they were “authoritarian”. Without realizing it, I had accepted that more than one political candidate was the ultimate measuring rod.