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...mistakes. We have not done nearly enough to make the worker student alliance real to the anti-war movement, or a mass issue relevant to the lives of most Harvard students. But M. David Landan's vile article in the March 8 CRIMSON is worse than useless in understanding SDS or any of its strengths and weaknesses. Landau blames the Progressie Labor Party for the relative smallness of SDS, ignoring the disappearance of virtually every other group which considered itself on the left (e.g. Student Mobe...
...characterizes the split in SDS in the spring of 1969 as between worker-student alliance proponents and the SDS national leadership, who believed "that students should demonstrate in support of the NLF." This is a pretty dishonest characterization of the people who became the Weathermen...
...making it clear who this "NLF support group" was might have made the issues clear. Support for the NLF was only one of several issues, and certainly was no more significant than support for working class struggles. SDS at present has no official position pro or con on the NLF leadership, but supports the struggle of the Vietnamese people concretely by leading militant fights against the war in this country (against ROTC, CFIA, military recruiters on campus...
...Landau implies that SDS is "racist" because it criticizes the Black Panthers. Again, there is no official SDS position on this matter, but many members of SDS feel that the Panthers have very serious political flaws that has greatly hindered the fight against racism. And Landau does not point out that these criticism are not those of bystanders, but of active participants in the struggle (e.g. Painters Helper campaign; support for Welfare Mothers struggling against the Flat Grant and price hikes in ghetto supermarkets when welfare checks come out; support for the Polaroid workers; fighting racist unemployment; support for Charlie...
Given these and other distortions, and the complete omission of the positive side of SDS, is there anything we can learn from this article (other than the obvious, that bourgeois ambition can have bad effects on your judgment)? Yes, this: that anti-communism is alive and kicking. It is remarkable how, often the allies of McCarthy (Gene) end up sounding like McCarthy (Joe): and there is Landau talking about a "vibrant," "free-wheeling" organization infiltrated and "taken over" by a "crude," "intolerant," "bitter" communist party...