> >From leftist sources, it was richly documented during the Columbia > Univ. uprising of '68 detailing the role of David Truman (name?), then > a dean at Columbia) in the final participation in Lumumba's murder. > Carrol yeah, David Truman, although I think he was vice-president...he was the admin person who promised the students that the cops would not be called in... a political scientist, Truman's early '50s book _The Governmental Process_ (basically a restating of Arthur Bentley's turn of the century _The Process of Government_, note similar titles) was probably the first expression of pluralist theory...he may have referred to it as "interest-group democracy"...thesis was that a combination of competing elites (which he called the "active minority") and certain formal procedures (interest groups, regular elections, separation of powers, etc.) produced government accountability, voila, democracy!...nary a word about concentration of wealth, management of consent, & state repression and terror... during the rebellion, Truman called for a public hearing and an investigation into the issues - CIA & military recruiters on campus, military research on campus, proposed gym in Morningside Park - that preciptated the action...striking students read back to him a section from above book in which he suggested that such proceedings are a poor way to obtain information, function principally as a propaganda devices, and serve as symbolic safety valves...Michael Hoover
