It is amazing how little the Weather-underground people have learned over the last 40 years. It is to the Panthers' credit that they viewed the "Days of Rage" as the spoiled-brat tantrum that it was. Somehow people
like Dohrn and her union busting husband Bill Ayers come through life like the children of privilege they are. Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:59:55 -0600 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fred Hampton > To: [email protected] > > Again, I am behind on reading posts, having been in Amherst since > Thursday, and probably won't catch up. Apologies if this repeats points > already made. > > Fred Hampton spent the last few months of his life going from Black high > school to Black high school -- and what was he telling them: he was > condemning the Wetherman tendency. That repeated polemic against the > Weatherman, delivered to Black high school students, catches up THE > chief contribution of the Black Panther Party: The need for the > development of a complex political movement that linked Black and white > revolulutionary organizations int a commone struggle to break the > barrier to class unity represented by racism (structural and > ideologoical). The Weatherman tendency grew from a repudiation of that > as a possible political goal, since white workers were so deeply racist > that no change was possible on their part. (As one of them once argued > with me, socialism in the United States would probably require somethng > like a lenghy occupation of the U.S. by the PLA. The Weather loons > really were loons.*) The Panther Pary rejected this, and constantly > looked for white/Black cooperation. Panthers came over to > Bloomington(Illinois) from Peoria, for example, to cooperate with the > ISU SDS chapter in attempting to recruit ISU students to participate in > the RYM2 October 1969 demonstrations in Chicago. Fred Hampton himself > spoke at ISU only a couple weeks before his murder. > > I do not think the specific errors made by any political grouping of the > past are of any interest (other than antiquarian) whatever. Errors are > repeated, but never in any form that is a recognizable repetitionof the > same error in earlier peiods. Criticism of the Weatherman tendency, for > example, will do nothing whatever to protect against the identical error > in the fture, since those who will make that error will be convinced > that they are entirely different from the Weatherman tendency. My > remarks above on Eatherman are meant to help clarify a political > principle that still holds: that "black-white" unity (or cooperation) > can coame aboaut _only_ through the leadership of Black revolutionary > forces. Weatherman terrorism is a triviality; their rejection of this > principle was profound, and this principle still holds today. > > Carrol > > > ________________________________________________ > YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > Send list submissions to: [email protected] > Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/guycarlos%40msn.com ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
