Word: rudd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rudd said that his ideas were always changing, and explained that right now they included Leninism and came out of what happened in France last May. Again one can question his application of ideas first from a country where the desperately poor were over ninety percent of the population, and second from a country where students and workers had a historic alliance...
...Later Rudd was asked if the Columbia movement wasn't nihilistic. No, he answered; their struggle was based on a clearcut Marxian dialectic. One had, on one hand, the Columbia ruling structure, he explained. Complete opposition to this would give rise to the exact opposite, which was, he said, a national democratic socialism. Just why national democratic socialism has to be the exact opposite of the Columbia ruling structure isn't at all clear to me. And it seems to me that Rudd decided it was so because it would best fit his argument...
SOMETIMES Rudd says so little about what he's talking about it's incomprehensible. this can be irritating and insulting: "Being for McCarthy is not being for a democratic community; it's a barrier of ideology. That's what Deitrich (the German speaker) and I faced tonight. It's what we've got to break through...
...main lesson of Columbia. And that lesson was pretty much embodied in our slogan, which was 'up against the wall, motherfucker." The slogan very clearly defined the enemy. It says you're there; and we're here." What the slogan really means is "we've got power, too." Rudd has a lot of ideas; but they are all jumbled...
...remember that Rudd isn't a speechmaker, and that what is easy to pick apart with careful semantics on the clear white page of the newspaper sounds a lot better when Rudd says it into a bullhorn under the towering buildings that make up Columbia's campus. Rudd is a revolutionary leader, and a pretty good one. Using the kind of movement jargon that keeps the revolutionaries at home with each other (such as calling everyone "brother") and by taking a tough stand against all "undemocratic" institutions at Columbia, he has held the Left together...