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    Default A better version of the redstar2000 papers?

    I'm a long time reader here (since the early 2000's). Some of my favorite theoretical reading material was the redstar2000 papers.

    I suddenly got the impulse to go over the stuff and found this

    (can't post links, the one at awardspace which comes up if you google)

    The host seems to have some serious problems and many of the sections are missing. I haven't been able to find a version that had all the articles intact.

    I remember at one point somebody had a downloadable version that you could save to your computer but would open in your browser as if you were reading it online. I've been looking but have been unable to find it.

    Could somebody help a comrade out?
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    This is an old thread but I have the same question.
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    PM Children of the Revolution about this.
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    I have that link bookmarked on my laptop at home. I will link you to it when I get off work.
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    Okay Bill/southernmiss/Rosa, I meant to get to this sooner, but such is life.
    This isnt a downloadable link to his papers, but it is a link to those pages you cannot get to on the awardspace site.
    http://www.prisoncensorship.info/arc...tar/index.html

    And by the way, we dont know who it was that placed his papers on awardspace, so we are unable to edit them. Somewhere on the awardspace pages, the term "copyright" was added, and it wasnt RS2K who wrote that. But anyway, enjoy. Let me know if you have any comments or questions concerning the man as well.

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    Okay Bill/southernmiss/Rosa, I meant to get to this sooner, but such is life.
    This isnt a downloadable link to his papers, but it is a link to those pages you cannot get to on the awardspace site.
    http://www.prisoncensorship.info/arc...tar/index.html

    And by the way, we dont know who it was that placed his papers on awardspace, so we are unable to edit them. Somewhere on the awardspace pages, the term "copyright" was added, and it wasnt RS2K who wrote that. But anyway, enjoy. Let me know if you have any comments or questions concerning the man as well.

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    Thanks for the link... I actually had a copy of the whole web site saved on my computer thanks to that file mentioned by BillKephart, but my old computer died taking the hard drive with it.

    If anyone finds or has it, please let me know.
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    Who is this character?
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    Do you mean, who is redstar2000? he was a southern white communist who was on the national board of Progressive Labor Party in the '60s. he was an influential activist for PL in SDS in the late '60s (and is mentioned in Kirkpatrick Sale's book SDS). due to PL's manipulation of SDS in 1969-70, he and his PL group in New Orleans quit PL and developed a critique of Leninism. They became a libertarian socialist group -- the New Orleans Socialist Union which published a monthly paper in the big easy in the '70s, The Louisiana Worker. They were influenced by the London Solidarity group, Maurice Brinton, Castoriadis, and a reading of various council communist and anarchist authors.

    In a more recent online profile he described his politics as "council communist" and I think that is a fair description. in the late '70s he moved to San Francisco and was involved in the Anarchist Communist Federation in 1978-80 (which had both councilist and syndicalist members), and wrote for their paper "North American Anarchist" and for the later independent version "Strike!". I had many conversations with him in the '80s when he was still living in San Francisco.
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    To add to that, the reason people on RevLeft "know" him is because he was one of the most active members earlier in this forum's history (as well as a mod I believe, I can't remember). Really smart guy.
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    To add to that, the reason people on RevLeft "know" him is because he was one of the most active members earlier in this forum's history (as well as a mod I believe, I can't remember). Really smart guy.
    An admin to be exact.
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    I'm reading some of these texts and I'm finding some great stuff. What happened to him?
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    What happened to him?
    he had a stroke, but he's still alive.
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    he had a stroke, but he's still alive.
    I hope he's doing okay.
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    I hope he's doing okay.
    Trust me, hes well taken care of. I hope in my latter years, I'm as well taken care of as he is.
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    Having had a quick look through his writings I can see that he was influenced by Maurice Brinton (and that's obviously a very good thing). Did his organisation have any links to the likes of Martin Glaberman?
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    I doubt it. He never mentioned Glaberman to me. Of course it's possible.

    New Orleans Socialist Union was a branch of the New American Movement when it was formed in 1972. This was originally formed as a "non-Leninist revolutionary socialist" group, a product of the New Left of that era. It had several tendencies in it, including Maoists (who quit in 1974 to form the Communist Workers Party) and libertarian socialists like the group in New Orleans, ex-CPers (Dorothy Healey's group who'd been expelled from the CP) and various others. The group quickly moved in a social democratic direction and eventually became the present-day DSA. Most of the libertarian socialists, including the group in New Orleans (and me) quit in 1974.
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