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heated oe any, See. a ST o > RF: COUNTERORIENTAi ION WEEK brought it to both those together, the organizing and the high political consciousness. Nobody else has done that erganizing work. We got a lot of people running around with rhetoric, supposed to be high political rhetoric. And so where I go now, and I found out by being in oppressed white communities all over this country, is that if you start out and you relate to this Red Rook, Now some guy last night was saying he walked around with the Essential Works of Mao in his pocket, you know, talking to people. I said why don't you run around with the essential practice of MAO, essential practice of MARX, see? If you start out, you start out with Chapter 11 in this book, the “mass lion," because brother it says people and people alone are the motive force in making, the making of world history. The masses have boundless creative power. And you better believe it, they do. As I said last night, you cats are going to the mountain- top, see, you're going to the mountaintop. And people ain't in the mountainte:. People are down in the valley, in coal mines of West Virginiz, in cotton mills all over this state, in factories in oppressed communities, that's where the people are. And you see when they wipe out, when they wipe out the Younc Patriots, white people ain": going to have nothing. And we found out by just, you know, being who we are and ta)king to people and building prograns that white people didn't have shit. And that because white people didn't have shit there wasn't no sense in making alliances or coalitions with revolutjsnary blacks or revolutionary browns or anybody else, see. See, SDS never came to this point. This is why they talk about oppressed black and brown people and they never refer to oppressed white ;:ople because they've never bean oppressed. So they're running around trying to figure out how to be oppressed. Question: JI just wanted to say something about the SDS. I realize what you said, the SDS has in the past made a lot of mistakes in the program. But after the recent split in 8DS, I think the workers stood in alliance to give their motto as less talk, more action. Fight racism. They're going into the working communities and actually their program ‘s to unite the working class by organizing in the community and the (rest unintelligible.) 79