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I wre -_ ewe di es, ee muired serious think bs -- 2 clear 2nd conrrehensiv eory sad, strater;. -- others insisted thet att that was neceseary mas to :ut yourself inte situaticns snere yo. £58 would get hicxe 3] armed braver: solic co the@™Bst. fene of the trotheres 2: ‘sisters were ccmplrining about the lack of democracy “ithin the organization. Phe ustifieation for this res always that we were in a “state cf war." - * - It increasincly tecane azrarent to us that the Syaticnese Federation vas not i gtanentally ovrosed to the errers ef the Left we rad known, out ves rather the culm ® netion of all its defects, The presess of the organization cas totally top-dcen. . She War Council race decisions in secret and the members were expected to ney ort ithout questicn, just as in a caritalist arny. . 4 Serious conflict develored over the subor2ination of the support units, es of non-niliteary activities of the orranization, to the combat units: that is, the "A came to te seen as the chief agent of the revolution. “e tegan te susrect that th: -@ar-Council vas manipulated either by; some local rirht-ring organization cr the CT: itself, The secret decision to kilt Marcus fosters and its xecution, confirzed cuz -Zsuspicions. — ; k The kind of revolution : vetve come to see as necessary h2s nothin= to Ao with = tarnviof the tyre the SLA rersni's. The werld eccnony is entering a de-ression tr ; like of which has not ‘been seentefore. People are finding cut that Foppa the cari . and Homma the State ere not going to ¢eliver the goods anycore: no meat, no gas, ¢ mayte no tread. If the goods are going tc set delivered, it tas to te us, "ordinar ,rorking people, rho Geliver them to us; whe take over and run the closed-dern far: itakeries, and refineries, etc., ané deliver the soods to curselves. That is the rer revolution: when ve take over the econory, our cotcunities, end ell of society, .ar _€ run then on ovr cnn tehalf. Ie ce only look for another “ors; or Daddy to do it # Rus -- a Fascist tarty, a "Corcrunist™ Party, an SLA -- re vil) just put ourselves tz $where we sterted, only worse off -- living under e total solice state. . : ¥ The irony of the SLA ki: Janarping: is this: that the life of yet one more huaan teing is traded for the barest necessities of survival. - ratricia Rearst is being 3 exchanged for what arounts to a temrorary raise in st:te fsoi stams allotrents. + f revolutinnaries, ve are not interested in just an extension of the welfere systen, 4vhether “radic2lly" administered or otheraise. ut it is not a desire for mrer. rev that led ovr brothers end sisters into the ccurse of action they have chosen. Evert ¥ dey, ell of us experience the dehunanization cf Leing kidnerred: of having to se] our lebor ;.over <-- our very life slood -- ur Tor ransom, to 4 toss, in orcer‘to 5: for cur survival, in orfer to be adls to werk again *he reat dey. This should dis solve once and for all -the raive assucptions about hunan conditions, ‘suecifically €rith regard to who is re-lly prcletariant end should reveal the missicnery nature ¢ the SLA's slogan "our interest’ is to s=rve end defend the reorle". The "“ceople” (i.e., the proleta riat} is anycne who hes no pover ever their activities ard the uses to which they ere rut, cecause they cust sell then to scxetecy else. This doc & not refer to those tenevolent "servants cf the reople" snose " real wish is rot tt -% power of the proletariat but their poser cvir *he zroleterizt, whether they be whi Ybleck,. brorn, yellow or red tureaucrets. Just look at China, Russia, and Cub2. In Gresrect, life there is’ the Same ss here: “you take orders; ysu work for souebody e: i; These countries are. still capitelist, only.there, the state is the caritalist!! Once we are punting thiness for ourseives, instead cf fclsoring orders frem the Ht eopte whosextort our time -- yrogucing that chey tell us, hov they tell us-- we -eean start to renske the world in the vay we want it to be. “fhe, SLA idee of "serarz -ysovere-gn Raticrs" is backrard and bourgrcis. “e will have to plan’ procuction on <z ywerléeride scale to fat vhat we vant; «hat reotle all over the sorld use every day ‘plready cones fron all rarts of the rerld, net Just their ora cart. Sut it is vite that ‘Te Kee: control cver what is clansecé and what is preducet, ani not give up thi 4 POs: er. to some nev iurgsueraty. this means ‘hat we rill nave te erganica en the bas ~ for councils -- asseuityies cf all th: reople concerned in communitice., 7 8c st, offices, farns, ete., shich make all decieions which ‘concern thenselves alene, and a ve " te sf OE A rae RSET a OL 2 ee Oe BEY a Lot AR ew ERR REE RENO They MRL TMM der EP