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‘Are we the same person? If not, when and why not?’
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WHAT did a 20-year-old David Edgar make of events in 1968?
I was very inspired by them. I came to university from a public school, where I’d been involved in CND and was very much opposed to the Vietnam war.
But when I got there, I was quite taken aback by the revolutionary left, whose rhetoric and politics were much further to the left than anything I’d come across before.
In April 1968, I found a mentor — a leading radical student — who said to me just after the Tet offensive: “Why do you think the Viet Cong were able to get into the compound of the [US] embassy?
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