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; Z le Se en i a oe Tews SS re ee WARP STS ease 4 BPW eevee a Oe UT te Ow ee op s noes aw, eee aN eee Oe Te eee eee ae oF Ge et ee ee wee - nd connrehensiveJeory and strater: -- others haired serious think& -- 2 clear en Finristeé that 2ll that was necessary nas to :ut oy” at into situations snere you a5s could get kiexe a araad braver: wewfld do the - Bone of the trother? an isters were ccupleining about the lack of democracy Miehin the organization, _ Phe sti fication for this was always that re were in a "state of war." ; t It increasinrly tecane azparent to us that the Symtionese Federation was not f canentally oprosed to the errers of the left we had knorn, but cas rather the culri. x 'netion of all its defects. ‘the process of the organization vas totally top-dcen. «Tne War Ccuncil rade decisions in secret and the meubers were expected to ouey ord: ithout questicn, just es in a ca: Atalist arcy. ; : Serious conflict develoved over the subordinztion of the surpert units, es of : Shon-nilitary activities cf the organization, to the coctat units: that is, the “4n #eane to te seen as the chief agent of the revolution. “e tegan te susrect that the . MarrCouncil ~as manipulated either by seme local rirht-winz organization sr the CIA ge tself. The secret decision to kill Marcus fester, and its xecution, confirred cur - Apuspicions. — The kind of revolution xe've come to see as necessary hes nothins to 40 mith al * “Aravtof the tyre the ELA rersni--s. ‘The world eccnony is entering & de:ression th like of «hich kas not been seextefore. Peorle are finding cut that Fopra the cari Jand Houma the State are not going to deliver the goods anyrore: no meat, no gas, 2! §mayte no tread. .If the soods are Eoing te set delivered, it bas to be us, “o-dinar; arorking people, vhoceliver then to us; who teke over and run the closed-dern faru bakeries, ‘and refineries, etc., and deliver the scods to curselves, That is the re: revolution: when re take over the econouy, our communities, end all of society, an run thea on ovr ovn behalf. If ve only Los for another tiocmy or Daddy to do it fi us -- a Fascist Farty, a “Cocmcunist" Party, an SLA -- re rill just rut ourselves car where we ataertec, only sorse off -- living under « total folice state. - £ The irony of the SLA LA kidnarping is this: that the life of yet one nore hunan : drei ng is traded for the barest necessities of survival. . ratricia Fearst is being 4 exchanged for what acounts to a temrorary raise in Stxte foot stams allotments. -a: revolutionaries, ve are not interested in just an extension of the selfare systen, Rhether "radically" edministered or othersise. ut it is not a desire for nrer. rev: tvhat led our brothers end sisters into the course of action they have chosen. Ever; day, all of us experience the dehuvanization cf teing kidnacred: of having to sel: ; our leber i.over -- our very life slood -- ur for ranson, to a toss, in order ‘to on } Lor cur-survivel, in order to be avle to werk agnin the neat dey. This should dis. % solve once and for all ‘the raive assumptions about hunan contitiens, scecifically ywith regard to who is remlly preletarian: end should reveal the missionary nature o: the SLA's slozan "our interest: is to serve and defend the reorle™. The "people" ; (i.e., the rroleta riat) is anycene who hes no pover cver their activities ard the Suses to rhich they ere tut, because they oust sell them to scaetody else. This doe: % not refer to those terevclent “servants of the reonle" xhose " real rish is rot thi s vower of the zroletariat but their power ovir the troleteriet, whether they be whi- tbleck, tron, yellow or red tureaucrats. Just look at China, Russia, and Cub2. In ‘respect, life there is the Sane as here: “you take orders; you wor rk for sonebody el pthese countries are.still capitelist, only. there, the state zs the caritalist!! Once we are runing things for ourseives, instead cf Felioving orders frou the —}.people whovextort our tine -- troducins chat “he tell.us, hox they tell us-- we “iy shat “hey y 1S-- can start to renske the corld in the xay we want it to be. “Zhe SLA idea of *serara: ‘eeovereign Natiors " is backrard erd bourgeois. “le will have to nlen’ production on a frorliside scale to get vhat we vant; shat reocle all ovar the vorld use every éay % 34, not just their orm vars. Sut it is vita! Ptrat re kee: control ever chat is planned eal what is ;resusei, and net f sive | up this @pover to some ne - Pureaucrany. this moen of councils w= asserin} ies cf all th: reople conmcernel in corzuni ties, factories, qoffices, faras, etc., which make oi decisions which ‘concern themselves elene, and