socialist press, even though were talking about americanizing it, published articles not only about pompeii and other radicals, but about aristotle, about plato. education of workers is a general education. since we are on tv, i won't even comment on the notion floating around in our political discourse that people don't really need to go to college and learn anything. socialists believe we did need to learn. even ordinary workers have a right to learn. high culture. they believed in high culture, not popular culture. culture, to them, was high culture. we are getting now to the point where my own family history begins to intersect with the rest of history. i once asked my mother, who grew up in this world of new york city socialism about the yiddish theater. she came from a socialist family in russia. they didn't even go to the yiddish theater as a kid. "no, we went to see shakespeare. we don't want to go to the yiddish theater." shakespeare was actually done in yiddish in some of those theaters. but the notion of high culture, that this is part of what people are entitled to. it can be ra