Leigh wrote:
I don't know what "Weatherman
tendency" is, except perhaps as
embodied within the "Days of
Rage" melee in Chicago 1969
which for many of the people I
knew considered worthless, and
did not participate or condone...
or vilify.
That's still my view.
I find Leigh's hostility to Marxism very disconcerting. But I'm
entirely sympathetic with this view: not condoning, but neither
vilifying.
Actions that result from people discontent with the status quo,
especially young people (e.g. students), are mostly debits of the
status quo, even if those actions leave much to be desired on tactical
or strategic grounds.
I rather have students who protest, even if their protests take forms
I consider political immature and counterproductive, than students who
acquiesce or remain impassive in the face of injustice, or students
who take action to defend an unjust status quo.
