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Your attack is not one of reasoned argument, but of slander. It relies on the specific connotation of words rather than on facts. Granted that the May 2nd Movement has significant differences with SDS; yet Mr. Hessler characterizes what is an alternative approach to the same issues as being that of an "enemy" on the left. For this assertion he offers no justification...
...letter. On rereading my review, I would agree that three of my words were III-chosen but the letter is far more excessive than the review: To set matters straight: (1) I did not at any point "attack," or mean to attack, M2M. I was comparing the positions of SDS and M2M to make a quite elementary point: that they differ. I made no value judgments. (2) I did not characterize M2M "as...an 'enemy' on the left" of SDS. I did suggest that such a situation might develop in the future. In view of the schismatic history of American...
...racial discrimination as a category of economic oppression is to consider the Negro as an "incidental" victim of a system which cuts a far wider swath. This kind of thinking has typified the attitude of American Marxists for many years (see Richard Wright's introduction to Black Metropolis). Most SDS members, conversely, construe American "imperialism" as an outgrowth of racial prejudice. They see the Viet Cong as an "incidental" victim of white bigotry...
Case tries to spell out, in clear and simple language, the equally simple but far less clear ideology which underpins concrete SDS projects. The ideology, which he calls "democracy," seems to differ little in temper or substance from the "direct democracy" of the socialist left-wing in Europe at the beginning of this century. These men wanted "democracy from below" in the factories; SDS wants it in the slums. They wanted a sense of community in the factories; SDS wants that in the slums. And, like the pre-World War I radicals, SDS feels little need to develop a logically...
...radicals of old succumbed to cold-hearted and hard-headed logicians on both their right and left. SDS, God knows, has its share of enemies on the right. Judging from John Maher's article, it may soon find them on the left also. The May 2nd Movement has little interest in "direct democracy" and a "sense of community." Swallowing whole Lenin's economic theory of imperialism, M2M has chosen foreign policy as its battle grounds. SDS too abhors the Viet Nam war, but eschews Leninist formulations in favor of sentimental, if telling, analogies between the Asian peasant and the Mississippi...