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aS ae ae. wn Vee ee eee 5 © errors of the Left we had known, but ‘ was Fa ther the culmination of all its defects. The process of the'o: ation was totally top-down. The War Council made” d aon ns in secret and the members were expected to obey orgeet, Mithout question, just as in a capitalist army. . wi a xe ot: Serious conflict developed over the subordination ef 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 QE “he CIA itself. The secret decision to kill Marcus Foster, and. ifg execution, confirmed our suspicions.. ee . = é % peat 2 *“The kind of revolution-we'! ve. come to see-as -. ‘necessary has nothing to do:with an “Army"*of the tvpe the SLA_we vorshij S. The world economy is entering a depression | the. like of which has not been seen before. -Peaple are finding™ out that Poppa the capitalist. and_Momma the: State are not going. to. deliver. the goods anymore. no, meat, nO gas, and maybe no bread. If the goods are going. 20. ek delivered,.it has to be us, “ordinary” working people, wh@:feliver them to us; who take over and run the closeé-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, atate. The irony of the SLA kfdnapping 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 ps experience the dehumanization of being 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 he able . to‘work again the next dav. This should dissolve once and. for 411 the naive assumptions about human conditions, specifically with regard to who is really proletarian: and should reveal the missionary nature of the SLA‘s slogan "our interest is to serve and defend the people" . The “people” 95