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Mark C Rosenzweig was Director and Chief Librarian/Archivist at the Reference Center for Marxist Studies in NYC.
He
is presently teaching in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu,Peoples Republic of China at Jiansu University of Science and Technology.
He
is the co-editor of the journal 'Progressive Librarian' and co-founder of the Progressive Librarians Guild. He is presently
a Councilor at Large of the American Library Association (ALA) and an elected member of the 'Action Council' of the Social
Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) of the ALA.
An activist librarian and library activist, finding more and more
of them everywhere, ready to make common cause.
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MCR
believes the worst thing in the world is to tolerate injustice as if it were simply "the way the world works".
He
does not believe the old saw that "the poor will always be with us". Nor does he believe that people will get their
just rewards in the "sweet bye-and-bye".
He does not believe that "The people united will never be
defeated". But at least they'll have a fighting chance.
With Marx: "Change the world!"
With Rimbaud:
"Changer la vie!"
"Seamos realista: hagamos lo impossible'
(Ernesto "Che" Guevara)
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Against
commodification, markertization, privatization, commercialization, homogenization, reification of all spheres of life.
For
political, economic and cultural democratization.
For the transcendence of capitalist society, not its globalization..
For
socialism, humanism, pluralism.
For the sovereignty of pleasure, imagination, creativity, humor, love.
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| Three Wise Men/ me and my pals Al kagan and Herb Biblo in characteristic poses at a meeting |
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