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Other right-wing libertarians took a similar path. The head of the University of North Carolina's Conservative Club resigned to become an active New Leftist; an entire YAF chapter at the University of Kansas voted to become an SDS chapter; the head of YAF at Brooklyn College became a left-wing anarchist; and an Ayn Randist who had spied on SDS in New Jersey for the House Committee on Un-American Activities became a member of SDS...
Other organizations, not directly related to either SIL or RLA, have also been active. The California Libertarian Alliance held a "Left-Right Festival of Liberation" last year that featured Paul Goodman, Karl Hess, and former SDS president Carl Oglesby. In Arizona, Student Libertarian Action Movement members started a center for the elderly and established close ties with "street people." The Phoenix Anarchist Coalition in Michigan has harassed and been harassed frequently by police. Perhaps most interesting of all are the "Nomads" and "Troglydytes"-libertarian dropouts who are currently living in the wilderness or underground. Their life-style subject...
Mike Kinsley's article of March 3 says that SDS believes "a quick and isolated end to this specific war in Southeast Asia is bad because it will relieve discontent against the government: economic depressions are good because they raise class consciousness among the starving workers." This statement is an unprincipled attack on SDS which totally misrepresents our position...
...racism, unemployment, or the war were eliminated tomorrow, SDS would indeed be gratified-not disturbed, as Kinsley suggests. We do not believe, however, that chronic unemployment and imperialist exploitation can be ended under the capitalist system. This is why we would continue to attack the government even if (absurd speculation!) it unilaterally ended...
...SDS is unequivocally in favor of an immediate end to this and all imperialist wars, and of full employment in socially productive jobs under decent conditions...