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"During the 1960s I was a member of a far-left group. We were so far left, in fact, that we thought Mao Zedong was a revisionist capitalist roader. We also believed that revolutionaries should join the military to subvert and destroy it from within. "I was an undergraduate student at UCLA when my turn came to carry out this mission. I mailed my student draft deferment card back to my draft board along with a letter condemning the war, and was promptly obliged with an induction notice." full at https://medium.com/@michael.balter/what-i-did-in-the-war-e159eaa098ad This piece was written by a former member of the Progressive Labor Party. He has a longer memoir in the collection "You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance". Louis Proyect reviewed the book (mentioning Balter's contribution) in CounterPunch. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/rebuilding-a-revolutionary-left-in-the-usa/ The book is available at https://www.amazon.com/You-Say-Want-Revolution-Worker-Student/dp/0578406543 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
