[Marxism] re: SDS

[Ethan Young <ethanyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dohrn takes her stand:

"I intentionally ignored the challenge to debate 
the issue of what killed SDS 38 years ago and who 
was right when, in favor of exploring what we all 
can do, in solidarity, now."

Reading this, my brain echoed with the challenge
hurled by Weather folks as they tried to conquer 
their recruits' fears about falling in line: 
"Don't be defensive. Push it out and deal with it!"

The ex-Weather leader did not speak at the SDS 
meeting because of her work at Northwestern 
University Law School. She gets her platform first 
as a one-time national leader of SDS in 1968-1969, 
the year that group reached its membership zenith, 
and the year it collapsed. Her other claim to SDS 
status is for the Weather fiasco, which she obviously 
shies away from discussing because it would expose 
her to real criticism.

If Dohrn truly wanted to help get a new student 
movement off the ground, she would do what Mark Rudd 
did: explain how disastrous their anti-democratic, 
'armed struggle now' politics was for last major 
student movement, and why it should be examined, 
understood and criticized to ensure that it not 
be repeated.

ethan young

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