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Fair enough, no one I know here is going to disparage worthies like Fred Halstead and Paul Boutelle. Nonetheless, let's recognize that SDS led historic mass struggles like the Columbia Strike of 68 and the Harvard Strike of 69. Personally, I think "we" or they should have taken a more flexible approach to SDS and intervened within it on some basis like most of the left did without "liquidating" themselves in the process. Seems I recall the trotskyists doing that in the socialist party in the 30s, not that the YSA should have gone that far which is essentially what PL did. It's refreshing to see that many veterans of this struggle are not reliving that sectarian mode in regards to recent formations like the Green Party etc. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Thomas Bias <bia...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > > > When I came to college as a 17-year-old boy who had only a year earlier > come to the conclusion that the Vietnam war was wrong, I was naturally > curious about SDS, especially as some of the students in the dorm with me > were members. So I attended a meeting. I swore I would never attend another > one. I participated in some of the pickets protesting Marine recruiters on > campus and other such events, and I'm glad that I did. I'm not sure how much > SDS contributed to organizing them. In spite of myself, I even attended more > SDS meetings. Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk. Finally, I gave up. > But I had seen Halstead-Boutelle posters on campus and began reading The > Militant, which I did not like at first. After the Fort Jackson acquittal I > began to take the SWP more seriously. I started dealing with SDS again after > I joined the YSA in the fall of 1969. It was never easy! And, yes, to my > untrained, uneducated mind, a lot of what the SDS was advocating was > completely "ultraleft," though that word was not yet in my vocabulary. > > Tom > > > > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
