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...Leftism" in the Summer Dissent was to attack the trend of the radical student movements. Moreover, both he and Mr. Lowenstein spoke in favor of a political coalition of labor, the churches, Negroes, and intellectuals to continue the movement toward reform that has distinguished post-Eisenhower politics. Both Mr. Booth and Mr. Maher, the latter explicitly, questioned the possibility of such coalitional politics. Your article gave the impression that the Forum was simply a debate about tactics of protesting Vietnam, but in fact the entire nature of American politics was at issue. Contrary to your reporter's perception, sparks...
...Booth subscribes to the theory that people will only listen when their interests are directly involved. You tell steel workers about their inability to strike because of the war; you tell students about the draft. Booth admitted that SDS had been hard-hit by the recent draft increase because many students who dropped out of school to work for SDS have been drafted...
...Booth describes SDS as multi-purposed, he does insist that a settlement in Vietnam must precede action in any other area. To further the war effort, President Johnson has made an alliance with Right-wing forces which has turned the national mood against welfare programs and other progressive actions. In addition, priorities on resources have been given to the military instead of advancing the War on Poverty. "President Johnson is in bed with the wrong people," he concluded...
...future of SDS, Booth predicted that it will either grow very quickly in the near future or else "be smashed by the government." "The Left in the United States," he explained, "expects to be on the defensive, and that is exactly what the government wants. They are keeping us busy defending our tactics so that our message of protest is never allowed to be heard as an alternative...
...contrary to recent press releases, he told me he did not think Johnson was a Fascist. The true Booth, however, didn't show through until I was driving him to a meeting late that night. He leaned over my shoulder to turn up the radio and catch the last words of, you guessed it, "Eve of Destruction...