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Romantic Revolutionaries. Though the Administration seemed more than ever to be digging in for a long, hard fight, something of the hope that stiffens Johnson against his critics was lucidly expressed by White House Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow. Speaking at the University of Leeds in England, Rostow said that the "aggressive, romantic revolutionaries" who long have disturbed world peace-Ho Chi Minn and Mao Tse-tung, to name two-must soon give way to leaders who will make a new era of tranquillity possible. "If we have the common will to hold together and get on with...
...countries is very difficult. Sentiment is already widespread and growing against the war. But people are unclear about why the U.S. is there and what to do about it. They are anxious to find niches of personal safety; they are divided in many ways against themselves. Radicals have to fight the illusion of individual outs, win large numbers of people to action that will solidify divided groups. We should organize against class rank and draft tests not because this will save people individually, a clear illusion, but because in such a fight we can unify ourselves as students, become clearer...
...link the anti-war fight with support for 2-S would be deadly. For the key division the student movement must overcome is that between itself and the bulk of the population, the working people, without whom no war can be fought, without whom nothing moves. Many workers are hostile to the anti-war movement. They often see us as a buch of cowards pretending moral opposition to disguise plain fear. Defense of 2-S will not only fail to prevent student conscription, and will therefore demoral-be the movement; it will, in addition, convince workers they were right...
Each method of drafting students and workers has advantages and disadvantages from the government's point of view. In either case, it will draft as many students and workers as it needs to fight the war. For us to urge the abolition of 2-S would be to imply that the draft for Vietnam could somehow be made just. Opposing 2-S means that radicals should give up their deferments and agitate, during various anti-war struggles, to convince their fellow-students that the deferment is dead against their long term interest. Of course people won't be convinced...
...like all reforms) obfuscations of the ultimate goal..." This is very revealing. In fact, revolutionaries must demand reforms which do exactly the opposite--they must organize struggles which clarify the situation by defeating deadly illusions, which unite people around their own self-interest and increase their ability to fight back...