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y —— & errors of the Left we had known, but was rather the culmination of all its defects. The process of the organization was - totally top-down. The War Council made @ecisions in secret - and the members were expected to obey orders without question, | just as in a capitalist army. eo. en ie “ Serious conflict developed over the subordination of the support units, as of all non-military activities of the organization, to the combat units: that is, the “Army” came to ke seen as the chief agent of the revolution. We began to suspect that the War Council was manipulated either by some local right-wing organization, or the CIA itself. The secret decision. to kill Marcus Foster!, and its execution, confirmed our suspicions. Ji bear ra, ate. re . The kind of revolution we've come to see as necessary has nothing to.do with\an "Army" of the type +the “ BLA worships. The world economy is entering a depression the - like of which has not heen seen before. People are finding... out that Poppa the capitalist.and Momma the State are not - going to deliver the goods anymore: no meat, no gas, and -- 5 maybe no bread/ Ifthe goods are going to get delivered, it has to be us, "ordinary" working people, who deliver them to us; who take over and run the closed-down farms, bakeries, and refineries, etc., and deliver the goods to ourselves, . That is the real revolution: when we take over the economy, our communities, and all of society, and run them_on our own behalf. If we only look for another Mommy or Daddy to do it for us -- a Fascist Party, a "Communist" Party, an SLA -- we will just put ourselves back where we started, only worse off off -- living under a total police state. | —_ Rae “SRF . The irony of the SLA kidnapping is this: that the ; life of yet one more human being ‘is traded for the barest ; necessities of survival. Patricia Hearst is being exchanged . for what amounts to a temporary raise in state food stamp allotments. As revolutionaries, we are not interested in just an extension of the welfare system, whether "radically" administered or otherwise. But it is not a desire for mere revenge that led our brothers and sisters into the course of action they have chosen. Every cay, all of us experience the dehumanization of heing kidnapped: of having to sell our labor power -- our very life blood -~- up for ransom, to a ; boss, in order to pay for our survival, in order to be able . to work again the next dav. This should dissolve once and - . for fli the naive assumptions about human conditions, oo Specifically with regard to who is really proletarian: and - Should reveal the missionary nature of the SLA's Blogan "our interest is to serve and defend the people". The "people™”: vt Pa ow ON gee