Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heyday of Communism at "Little Moscow on the Charles" has passed and the Students for a Democratic Society have come of age. But the influence of the Communists in New Left groups remains a subject of much speculation not only among habitual red-baiters, but also among members of SDS...
Commenting on the influence of the Communist Party in SDS, a representative of Students for a Democratic Society said that to his knowledge there were only two or three Party members in the Harvard chapter...
...Harvard undergraduate who is a member of the Communist Party, USA, reported that an attempt had been made within SDS to pressure Communists into identifying themselves. The Communists, he said, remained anonymous both for personal and tactical reasons. The undergraduate had not become a spokesman for the Communist Party Boston Area Youth Club because there were numerous personal disadvantages; tactically, however, there are two sides to the problem...
Michael Zagarelle, chairman of the National Youth Committee of CP, USA emphasized that if Communists identified themselves publicly, it would take a great deal of pressure off other radical (but non-Communist) groups which are presently being Red-baited. How could anyone say that SDS is a Communist front if the handful of Communists involved make their Party affiliation a matter of record, he asked...
...Harvard SDS representative claimed that SDS and SNCC have a greater influence on the Party than the Communists have on them. "We wouldn't dream of asking the Communists to leave SDS," he continued, "because we feel it is important for our membership to come in contact with Communists and learn that they aren't devils." The neurotic American phobia of Communism must be overcome, he continued. It is equally important, he said, that our membership learn to formulate their own ideology, distinct from the Communist ideology...