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sau sters esshced that to create a - ers and sisters ess&x.ed that to create a sositive ion of & new society re- d serious thinking - Clear ald comprehensive theome ond strategy -- cthers -¢ ‘sted that all that MD necessary was to put yoursei Pcs Situations where your vould get kicked and armed bravery would do the rest. Some of the brothers and: sitters were complaining about the lack of democracy ~ithin the organization. The -/ justification for this was alvays that we were in-a "state cf war." It increasingly became arparent to us that the Symbionese Federetion was not fun- danéntally oprosed to the errcrs of the Left we had knorn, tut vas rather the culmi- : nation of all its defects. The process of the organization ras totally too-down. Thé War Council made decisions in secret and the members were expected to obey orders - without question, just es in a cazitalist arny. i Serious conflict develoved over the subordination of the sunport units, as of all nonénilitary activities of the organization, to the combet units: that is, the "Army" ‘camé to te seen as the chief agent of the revolution. “Se bemn to suspect that the VarrCouncil was manipulated either by some local risht-cinz creanization zr the CI4 itself. The secret decision to kill Marcus foster, and its aecutior., confirmed our suspicions. . & The kind of revolution ve've come to see as necessary has nothing to do with an “Atmy'of the tyne the SLA rorshi's. The world economy is entering a de’ression the like of which has not been seenbefore. People are finding ont that Foppa the cavitalist and:Kiomma the State are not soing to deliver the goods anyzore: no meat, no gas, and maybe no treac. If the goods are going to get delivered, it 4as to be us, "ordinary" working people, whodeliver them to us; who take over and mm the closed-dorn farms, bakeries, and refineries, etc., and deliver the goods to ourselves. That is the real revolution: hen we take over the econouy, our comnunities, 2nd ell of society, and run them on our own behalf. Ie xe only look for another Mocny or Daddy to do it for us =- a Fascist farty, a "Communist" Party, an SLA -- re will just put ourselves cack where we started, only worse off -- living under a total rolice state. , ‘I The irony of the SLA Kidnarving is this: that the life of yet one more human teing is traded for the barest necessities of survival. jrairicia Hearst is being exchanged for what amounts to a temrorary raise in stzte fool stamp allotments. As revolutionaries, re are .1ot interested in just an extension of the welfare system, shether “redically” administered or otherrise. “ut it is not a desire for mrer revenge that led our brothers and sisters into the course of ection they have chosen. Every - day, all of us experience the dehumanization of being kidnasred: of having to sell our labor ;ower ~- our very life blood ~- up for ransom, to a toss, in order to pay for cur. survival, in order to be able to werk agein *he next day. This should dis- solve once and for all the naive assumptions about human comlitions, specifically with regard to who is re-lly proletarian: and should reveal the missionary nature of the SLA's slogan "our interest is to serve and defend the people”. The "people" ‘(ive., the proletariat) is anycne who has no power ever their activities end the a uses to which they are rut,’ because they mst sell then to ssaebody else. This does _ hot refer to those tenevclent "servants of the people" whose " real wish is rot the “yower of the sroletariat but their power over «he sroleteriet, whether they be vhite, black, brorn, yelios or red bureaucrats. Just look at China, Russia,“and Cuba. In this respect, life there is the same as here: “you take orders; you work for somebody else. These countries are still. capitalist, only_there, the state is the capitelist!! — . Once *e are runing things for ourselves, instead cf following orders from the people who extort bur tine --.irocucing whet “hey tell us, how they tell us-- re" can start to remake the world in the way we want it to be. he SLA idee of "serarate, sovereign Natiors” is backrard and bourgeois. ‘We will have to plan production on a vorld-ride, scale to get what we want; what ceorle all over the world use every day already cones from all varts of the vorle, not just their om part. Slut it is vital that we keer control cver vhat is planned and vhat is ;roduced, and not give up this poxer tc some new tureaucracy. ‘his means that we will have to organize on the basis of councils -- assemblies of all the people concerned in commnities, factor ies, offices, waa etc. whic’ make all decisions shich cop’.err: themselves alone ere e Wee 5 tein . bia wt ae “aah a psu Sar lea RR ae ae aera ee ey Ses Ses neem tay ES EAR! pase oe a an a: oe S Aa te