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LENS Ale SEA eee et ee a et a Cb Lae st ety mn ee MMM TT mR eee Se em eee oe eee ab tee Py « ¢ . ° ‘ ~ ¢ 7 : 2. Open better to the Pecple (cont.) Po wri. v weet > contradictions had already begun to emerge among the membership. Although some of the ‘ brothers and sisters asserted that to create a sositive vision of a new society re- (oF. quired serious thinking -- a clear and comprehensive theory and strategy -- others :. ane insisted that all that was necessary was to put yourself into situations where your ~2a88 would get kicked and armed bravery would do the rest. Some of the brothers: and—---——-. sisters were complaining about the lack of democracy © within the organization. Phe justification for this was always that we were in a "state of war." © ° nl It increasingly became apparent to us that the Symbionese Federation was not fun- danentally eprosed to the errers of the Left we had known, tut was rather the culmi- nation of all its defects. The process of the organization tas totally tov-down. The War Counciivmade decisions in secret and the members wer: exsected to ovey orders without question, just es in a cazitalist aruy. Serious conflict develoved over the subordination of the sunrort units, as of all non-military activities of the organization, to the combat units: that is, the "érmy" nw came to te seen as the chief agent of the revolution. ‘“e began to suspect that the arrCouncil was manipulated either by some local rirht-winy organization or the Ci: itself. The secret decision to kill Marcus ‘oster, and its xecutior, confirmed our suspicions. _ The kind of revolution we've come to see as necessary hes nothing to do with an —7— “Army' of the tyne the SLA rorshi:s. The world economy is entering a de'ression the like of which has not been seerbefore. People are finding oat that Foppa the ca.italist and Momma the State are not going to deliver the zoods anymore: no meat, no gas, and mayte no :read. If the goods are going to get delivered, it 1as 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: shen we take over the economy, our communities, and ell of society, and run them on our own behalf. If ve only look for another *formy or Daddy tc do it for us -~ a Fascist Tarty, a "Communist" Party, an SLA -- we will just rut ourselves cack i where we started, only worse off -- living under a total rolice state. 4 oe The irony of the SLA kit xidnareing is this: that the life of yet one more human : teing is traded for the barest necessities of survival. sratricia Hearst is veing a exchanged for. what. amounts to a temporary raise in stste fool stamp allotments. As 1 revolutionaries, ve are not interested in just an extension of the welfare systen, 4 whether “radically" administered or otherwise. “ut it is not a desire for mrer revenge . i that led our brothers and sisters into the course of ection they have chosen. Every 4 "ay all of us experience the dehumanization of being kidnmazred: of having to sell wr lgbom cover == cur very life sleed -- up “or ransen, te a tess, in order tn ray fer cur survival, in cofer to be able te ve ba alsin *ho me. dep. This shoull dis- ae oe empcive once and forall the naive assumptions about hunan comiticns, specifically } with regard to whe is revlly proletarian: and should revea the missicnary nature of - | + ne had arm 0 REE cin et Mage Eas De gat malay 2 Nae Ae ee oe oOo emit pam pr A eee cam A ne AT0. 7-19200 tage eo the SLA’s slogan "our interest is to serve and defend the people". The “peop)e. a 5 the -oletariat) is anycne who has ‘no power cver their activities and ¢ e 6 = ~m™ 4 the. Ulm