Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...false than the native radical doctrine that attributes all wars, racial injustices, and poverty to the machinations of a capitalist and militarist "Establishment." Student revolutionists within SDS planned turbulent confrontations and revolutionary tactics. They manipulated facts in ways that created distrust and bred unwarranted antagonism. There apparently was occasional talk of wider revolution to overthrow the present political system. A very few revolutionists may have been in dead earnest. More, we suspect, were half in dreamland, feverishly discussing romantic tactics but hardly contemplating realistic execution. Part of the responsibility for the disturbances rests upon the revolutionaries consciously seeking to subvert...
...there in T.V. land, although kids may talk about rejecting the rotten establishment, although we may call adult values hypocritical, well we really don't mean it at all. In truth we're just just spoiled brats, anti-everythings rejecting for rejecting's sake, obnoxious for the nuisance value of it. Just give us the old boot in the arse and we'll understand. It's what we deserve after...
...nobody can tell them anything. But, perhaps even more significantly--and this is what Wessel undoubtedly found so hard to believe--what happened Friday night showed that many people at Harvard like to consider themselves "radical" without doing anything about it. They like to be against the war, to talk about "radicalizing" people and confronting the University, without truly committing themselves to their politics or finding out what it really means to be "radical...
...complete break. They become committed radicals. For some, the march on the Pentagon did the trick. For others, it was Chicago. For some of us, it was a gradual series of things. But for many, it hasn't come yet. They still sit back, worry about their grades, talk about how bad the system is and how against the war they are. Many of them belong to SDS and are the ones who help give SDS the cliquish and bombastic air that turns many Harvard students away. As with their radicalism, they are in SDS in name only...
Perhaps a truly radical college community is too much to hope for. Perhaps anything anybody does that can in any way be construed as being against the war is helpful. Perhaps, it is even a good thing if pseudo-radicals merely talk about the system and the war. Perhaps it takes people on all levels of commitment to bring about a truly radical movement. But it's hard for me to believe that radicalism is at all helped or strengthened by the kind of people who hissed Dietrich Wessel on Friday night. --ANDREW JAMISON...