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errors of the Left we had known, hut was rather the culmination of all its defects. The process of the organization was totally top-down. The War Council made decisions in secret and the members were expected to obey orders without question, . Just as in a capitalist army. Serious conflict developed over the subordination of the support units, as of all non-military activities of the organization, to the combat units: that is, the “Army“ came to he seen as the chief agent of the revolution. We began to suspect that the War Cosincil was manipulated either by some local right-wing organization or the CIA itself. The secret decision: to Kill Marcus Foster, and its execution, confirmed our suspicions. Merten. , The kind of revolution we've come to see as necessary “Ras ; nothing to. do withyan: “A. “Army” of the etype <the ‘SLA \ worshi} oS. The world « economy is entering a depression the like of which has not heen seen before. People are finding _- out that-Poppa the capitalist and Momma the State are not . going to deliver the goods anymore: no meat, no gas, and or mayhe -no breads’. ‘If-the goods are going to get delivered, it has to ke 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: 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 state... me, fe, oY The irony of the SLA kidnapping is this: that the life of yet one more human being is traded for the harest 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 Gay, all of us 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 day. This should dissolve once and forall 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" -.