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...opponents of PL in SDS have many objections to the way their organization has been run during the past
...years. They point out that the influence of PL has caused SDS to soft-peddle the war as a major issue. They complain that PL's perspective of revolution has led SDS to focus exclusively on a set of demands-such as higher wages and improved conditions for workers-which have only limited relevance to the student movement. And, most of all, they criticize the bitter, sectarian manner in which PL treats those who do not agree with them...
While the rest of us, whether PL or Young Republican or rising young politico or tired, liberal cynic, merely mirrored his games in our own distorting mirrors. We all had run the race, we all laid claim to the prize, while the killing in Indochina, immune to our debate over the meaning of "End the War." went irrevocably...
...before Tom Wicker had tried to instill in us a sense of sin. (Sin, of course, not being part of our "modern" consciousness, it was easy to misunderstand his words. After all, how could one see in PL's self-righteousness the self-aggrandizement of American capitalism, how could the liberals be brought to see their complicity in bureaucratic deception, how could any of us purge ourselves of self-serving self-righteousness?) "I believe with Faulkner that the basis of all things is to be afraid," Wicker said. "If we believe that only success matters, then we have failed before...
Unofficial speakers at the end of the meeting included representatives of SDS, PL, a Puerto Rican liberation group, and the Young Socialist Alliance...