"I had started reading Marx and Lenin, but at that point I think Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau had more effect on me. What I responded to in my readings were emotional rather than theoretical questions. I was developing a hatred of the brutality of the existing economic system, a hatred of the impersonal degradation of human beings. That's what moved me as a teenager, and stayed with me."
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Dorothy Ray Healey California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party (1990)
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Henry David Thoreau
1817 β 1862
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