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...This Supplement is the first fruit of an attempt to revive an old form of Crimson journalism: the quirky, eccentric, extended essay. The Dump Trucks of several years past were written in a different environment, and were more confessional, more casual, and more devoted to the sensibilities of the youth culture. They really were "dump trucks" to unload younger writers' heads...
Times have changed a little. If we wrote the things people wrote several years ago they would seem obvious, even a trifle irresponsible. We have decided, in our first supplement, to return to the avant-garde youth culture that spawned our predecessors, and to talk about it in an historical perspective. The old Dump Trucks tended to have an anti-intellectual bias; we hope that we have not over-compensated for it in the other direction...
...would also like to thank Jean Acko who drew the cartoon of Marinetti in his automobile on short notice; Steve Potter, who photographed the roaring automobile on the cover; Lynn Darling, who helped with content, proofreading and layout; Rich Meislin, who typeset the supplement; and Garrett Epps, who gave us encouragement, many of our ideas, and superb editing, as well as many...
Finally, although this supplement is written as a civil polemic against youth culture lifestyle politics, it would be a great mistake to take the theme of the piece as an equation of the New Left with Fascism. That canard was used opportunistically by Senior Faculty several years ago and seems to us to be no less malarky now than it was then. Those who saw Hitler Youth in University Hall deliberately allowed the contours of their analogy to obscure the political content of New Left anti-war agitation...
...overriding theme in this first Supplement, it is that the aestheticization of politics can have disastrous consequences. And that because of this, New Left politics should not be seen as a way of life, but as a strategy for social change...