You Are Now a Cadre

The determination of the teenage acolyte is unmatched

After my sixteenth birthday in 1974, politics was all that mattered. The Red Tide was by its nature, a fast-aging set— what were we all going to do when we got out of the high school playpen?

Several of us joined the “grown-up” socialist group we were most attracted to at the time, a very small sect called the International Socialists, the “I.S.”

© Joel …