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My mind was brought to the full lives of Jean-Paul Sartre and  Simone de Beauvoir by Skye Clearly's interesting piece on their, shall we say, leisure activities. But I cannot think of those two, without thinking of their meeting with Che Guevara, whose spirit continues to inspire. And in a similar spirit I have to share my hero Paul Robeson singing the labor ballad Joe Hill, who much like Ché reminds us "it takes more than guns to kill a man."            -David Griscom 

What we are reading:

How To Party Like An Existentialist - Skye Clearly 2019

Illegalism And Ultra-Leftism - Interview with Sartre, 1972

And these words by the writer José Saramago on Che:

"Che Guevara, if it can be said, existed before he was born, Che Guevara, if it can be affirmed, continued to exist after his death. Because Che Guevara is just another name for what is most just and worthy in the human spirit. What so often lives dormant within us. What we should wake up to know and to know ourselves, to add the humble step of each to the path of all.”

What we are listening to: 

Joe Hill  Paul Robeson