LOL. I was 15 and I read a letter on "Achterwerk". Achterwerk is a open letter page on the TV guide we had a home (due to the idiosyncrasies of the Dutch broadcasting system the different TV guides available have very much their own character, we were members of the VPRO, an often explicit left leaning and critical broadcastingcooperation, they were the first who showed a nude (in a very sweet way, looking back at it). Anyway, Achterwerk is a open letter page were children can write about their concerns, there is no adult commenting, just kids writing to each other. This can rane from a 7 year old afraid of ghosts to someone whose parents are about to get divorced to a girl who doesn't feel anything during sex. Anyway, I was 15 and someone wrote a letter telling about the summercamp. Inviting readers who wanted to go on vacation but didn't feel like going to Spain to get plastered and laid, if you care about politics and want to talk about it with other young people from all over Europe do join us in Belgium. So I did :-) My father, who is more of a free market liberal wished me a good time and said "I believe you are way to smart to get indoctrinated". And so I didn't. Must say there were some folks who wanted to do some fun indoctrination games, like a bunch of escaped Stalinists. There was also an IRA man (I am for the Irish cause and I can't tell you my name). I didn't join either of them. Apart from the politics (which was good) it was also good for me to hang out in a crowed were I felt I more or less fitted in, even though I was way the youngest. School and me never really worked out, people there had quite a limited idea how you ought to be. Here there was a wide variety of options, from the already mentioned Stalinists to anarchists and whatever goes in between. In some countries the different groups kept very apart, in the UK the Trotskyte movement had split up and branched into so many fractions and many of those were quite bitter. The Dutch movement has it's fractions, but is also more of an amalgam. (At least from my point of view, I walked on the edge of it.)
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Anyway, I was 15 and someone wrote a letter telling about the summercamp. Inviting readers who wanted to go on vacation but didn't feel like going to Spain to get plastered and laid, if you care about politics and want to talk about it with other young people from all over Europe do join us in Belgium. So I did :-)
My father, who is more of a free market liberal wished me a good time and said "I believe you are way to smart to get indoctrinated". And so I didn't. Must say there were some folks who wanted to do some fun indoctrination games, like a bunch of escaped Stalinists. There was also an IRA man (I am for the Irish cause and I can't tell you my name). I didn't join either of them.
Apart from the politics (which was good) it was also good for me to hang out in a crowed were I felt I more or less fitted in, even though I was way the youngest. School and me never really worked out, people there had quite a limited idea how you ought to be. Here there was a wide variety of options, from the already mentioned Stalinists to anarchists and whatever goes in between. In some countries the different groups kept very apart, in the UK the Trotskyte movement had split up and branched into so many fractions and many of those were quite bitter. The Dutch movement has it's fractions, but is also more of an amalgam. (At least from my point of view, I walked on the edge of it.)