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Sisaruus

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49. I thought it was because I was smart and insightful at a young age.

Thu Jan 5, 2012, 07:33 PM

Jan 2012

I found my way to socialism in my teens. I turn 60 this year and I have recently stumbled on pieces of family history which I never knew (or knew that I knew). My maternal grandparents were Wobblies (and my now 83-year old mother remembers going to Wobbly family picnics as a child so I've started calling her Baby Wobbly). I always knew my paternal grandfather was chair of the local ethnic (Finnish) hall which I assumed was more or less a social club, and where I spent much time as a little kid. About 4 or 5 years ago, I discovered it was considered a socialist organization. It now houses historical archives of materials from all the other New England Finnish-socialist halls from that era. So I guess there must have been some early influence... even if I was smart and insightful at a young age.

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I thought it was because I was smart and insightful at a young age. Sisaruus Jan 2012 #49

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