George Fish
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | writer |
| Location | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Introduction | I am a freelance writer and socialist activist presently living in Indiana. I have been a socialist activist since 1965, and have published extensively in many left journals, including In These Times, Political Affairs, Against the Current, Socialism and Democracy, Dialogue & Initiative, and Monthly Review, just to name a few. My activities in the anti-Vietnam War Movement at Michigan State University are chronicled in the history of that Movement at non-elite campuses, Ken Heineman's Campus Wars (NYU Press, 1993), which I reviewed as a revier-participant in the February 1994 Monthly Review. I studied mathematics and Chinese history and language at Michigan State, and graduated with a degree in economics from Indiana University-Bloomington. I also write and publish extensively on blues and other pop music, and write and publish poetry as well, what I call "manifestoes in verse." I am, further, an actively militant atheist, ex-Catholic, and iconoclast who chafes under arbitrary authority of any type, even that of the left. I think for myself--period. |
| Favorite movies | My all-time favorite: Citizen Kane. I've also enjoyed Midnight Cowboy, Last Tango in Paris, and more recently, the movies on music greats Ray, Walk the Line, and Cadillac Records. |
| Favorite music | blues, pre-1985 R&B, pre-1965 rock 'n' roll, punk (especially the Sex Pistols), and some country, notably that of Patsy Cline, early David Alan Coe, many of the songs of Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, and the wonderfully defiant latest stuff from the Dixie Chicks. I love good music, can't stand bad music. |
| Favorite books | Outside of the creators of the Marxist and socialist classics, my favorite authors are Sinclair Lewis and Franz Kafka. I also love the iconoclastic journalism of H.L. Mencken. |