Is There a God That Failed Here?

I think that part of the impulse that led me to become a labor historian was, was that contradiction that I saw at that night. We would always have these discussions even in the early 70s when there was a kind of revolutionary mood going on. And the, the workers grabbed our signs, which were things like, you know, GM mark of exploitation. It's striking to me that for a lot of people who leave a tradition, whether it's the Communist Party or Trotskyist group or whatever it is, there's almost this need to perform penance by many of them. They become an ex-radical and then they have to go through this sort of like quasi-Catholic ritual where