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AJ Muste Day in Endeavor (WI) Lions Park
"In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist." -Muste
"Whether Muste’s was in fact the most realistic and moral position at the time may be debated, but I think there is no doubt that its remoteness from the American consciousness was a great tragedy. The lack of a radical critique...contributed to the atrocity of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as the weakness and ineffectiveness of such radical critique today will doubtless lead to new and unimaginable horrors." -Chomsky
sources:
A.J. Muste "Pacifism and Class War," The Essays of A. J. Muste, ed. Nat Hentoff (Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1967), pp. 179-85. [link].
Noam Chomsky "On The Backgrounds of the Pacific War" Liberation September-October (1967) [link].
image: Bernard Gotfryd "A.J.Muste, antiwar activist" Central Park, NYC (1968-9). Library of Congress call # (digitial file): LC-DIG-gtfy-02715. [link].