by Lizzie Widdicombe, from The New Yorker - October 22, 2007

The fortieth anniversary of Che Guevara's death went by quietly last week unless you count a party at the Brecht Forum, in the West Village, where skirmish erupted between the organizers over mojito pricing. Colin Robinson, Brecht Forum board member and an editor at Scribner, found himself on th losing side of a philosophical rift. "I told them, 'When we sell the drinks, let' sell them at decent prices, so we break even,' " said Robinson, who, in 1995 published Che Guevara's "Motorcycle Diaries" and will publish Fidel Castro' dictated autobiography this December. "They said, 'But people can't afford decent prices!' So we ended up just giving away the mojitos for free and asking for donations.

Andrew Feenberg

[Taken from: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/feenberg/nl.htm]

I. Culture and Politics

1. Introduction

The new left and the civil rights movement had at first an undeniably heroic character. In the name of the unrealized democratic ideals of American society, tiny groups of white students and blacks confronted bureaucratic intransigeance and police brutality North and South. There struggles had a quality of righteousness and courage that captured the imagination of the world.