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. . . -. , : I ' continue to cling to thc Old Lcft philzwtiphy of "back to tlic workcrs. It is they who many veteran New Left .watchers believe launched and pushed the summer'"work-intt program designed to infiltrate and radicalize the blue collar corps. . The HAYDEN group, on the other hand, initially seeming more realistic, is convinced Amcrican wotk- err are far too well-off 4nd far too conservative 'in their thinking to ' make a fcrtilo culture for revofition. Historically, the PLP approach better survives theoretical scrutiny. Social scicntists bclievc that an idealistic and altruistic student m o v e a e n t is too vague and transicnl to bo long lived and significant. Such a rnovcment must have a "catricr" cause (nationalistic, racial, labor, ctc. ), basically rnatcrialistic in gocid radieal judgment and reason is flying in tlic face of history as wcll as social tlrcory. result evcn before the volatile an'd unpredicta1,lc "life stylc" c l p c n t is introduced. and may well sound thc signal. for a'multisplintered SDS in coming months. . nature .or it falters. The RU €action thcn, though flying with apparent Intcrnal SDS conflict and disunity is bound to Tho Chicago meeting is tharcforc wcll worth watching . Tbe consc-&ative William BUCKLEY publication Combat has Combat claims that RU playcd a niajbr also noted the omergancc of R U but does not emphasikc the "split" potcntial of RU within SDS. tole both in tlic Stanford Rcscarcli Center dcmonstr.ations and tlrc . - Bcrltclc). Peoples P a r k fracas. Tlie publicatiOn characterizes RU as a typically doctrinaire Marxist forcc conlplctc with agc-\\*cBrn cliches (for 'instance, 'Ithe real cncmy is the U. S. imperialist ruling class, (I and "the dictatorship of the prolctariRt") but with a few modern "New tclt'' twists (the "pig-s" and "industrial prole- tariat"). . . C u m t s t and Scripts-Howard reporter arc not in agrec- c-- nrent in thcir evaluation of R U and in fairness it shoulrl probably bc conccdcd that byth RU's philosophy and impact cannot yct bo accriratoly gauged. kloward, sees thc PLP faction within SDS as scarchimg far a aotxirric.r@.l cquae, Conitat statcs: "RU will try to radicalixc thc tlack-worker-worncn's liberation niovcmcnts. 'I RU is still too ncu' to evaluatc. Wlrcrc Scripts- - . Aprhbos. collcgc commcncenicnts which Rre h i n p !icld all June 12 Ncw Ytork Tinic:s.' -ovaSr thc country rlirring .l!iiq., Russcll L%Al<ICR, wrolv Llic Iollo\ving . - - satirical column which appeared . ' -a - , 4 - . I I ' . . ! I : ,- * 6 .. :., ...