Word: maher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement Maher helped write that is being distributed by PL across the country accuses Luce of having been dropped for other reasons: "like all of us he was under tremendous pressure. He was facing 20 years in jail and a $20,000 fine for having visited Cuba. Early this year, we had discovered that he had succumbed to these pressures. To escape, he began using heroin, embezzling funds form the movement to pay for his need; indeed, he finally sold out to the police, to the 'destroy-PL' campaign. To feed his illness, to escape form the reality...
...Maher does not plan to drop out of M-2-M at Harvard because of his own membership in PL. He is also one of the three chairmen on the steering committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Club...
According to Maher, the difference between being a member of PL and belonging to M-2-M is that the former "involves a commitment to a socialist revolution in this country, and fighting for that revolution by whatever means are necessary-above ground or underground, in the event of open facism...
...other hand, "one must be against imperialism, but it is not necessary to be committed to a socialist revolution. With me," Maher adds, "the more I understood imperialism, the more I saw the need for revolution...
Aside from attacking Lace's general allegation that M-2-M was a puppet of the PLP, Maher also objected to Luce's specific statements. "The existence of an arms cache is total ball. Our program is entirely is the open. We believe there must be a revolution, but it cannot come for a long time--not until the millions understand the need...