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O eeesame to te seen as the chief anent of the revolution. “e begin to suspect tha : n as 6 2. Over Letter to the Peorle (ccnt.) contredictiorns had already besun to emerge among the memoerskip. Although scme cf the avothers ard sisters asserted that to create 4 nositive visien of a new society re- quired serious thinking -- a clear end comprehensive theory sand strategy -- cth insisted that all that was necessary was to out yourself into situations where your .ase would get kicked and armed bravery would do the rest. Gome of the trothers and ows Save, ae: sisters were comzlaining about the lack of democracy within the orzanizeticn.~- The ———' justification for this ras aivays that we vere in a "state of war." It increasingly tecane arparent to us thet the Symbionsse federation vas rot fun- danentally cproged to the errcrs of the Left we naé known, out vas rather the cului- nation of ell its defects. ‘The process of the organization vas totally top-down. ie War Council mage decisions in secret and the menubers werz exnected tc ouey orders without question, just as in e cayitalist arzy. a Serious conflict developed over the subcrdination of the sunport units, as of all non-military activities cf the organization, to the combat units: ‘hat is, the "Army" he = “arrCouncil vag manipulete? either by ocme local risht-cinz organization or th itself, Tae secret dec:sion to kill Marcus ‘oster, and its ewscution, confirm: suspicions. The kind of revoluticn we've come to sae as necessary his nothin=s to do with an “army'of the tyne the SLA worshi-s. % The world economy is eniering a ce‘ ressich tres like of which has not vezn seencsefore. People are finding cat that Forva the ca.italist and Momma the State are net going to celiver the zoocs anymore: no meat, no cas, end mayte no “reed. If the zcods are going to get delivered, it =as *o be us, "ordinary" yorking people, who deliver them to us; whe teke over and rim the closed-dern farns, bakeries, and refineries, e%c., and deliver the goods to ourselves. That is the rea revolution: chen we take over the economy, our comeunities, and all of society, and run them on our omn vehaif. 4f ve only look for another houy oF Jaddy to do it Tor us -- a Fascist tarty, a "Communist" Party, an SLA -- we rill just cut ourselves cacz where we started, only worse off -- iiving under a total police state. ° The irony cf the =LA kidnapping is this: ‘that the life of yet one aore human teing is traded for the darest necessities of survival. rairicia Eeerst is being exchanged for what amounts to a temporary raise in stzte foot stann allotments. as revolutionaries, re are not ‘interested in just an extension of the welfare system, shether "radically" administered or otherwise. “ut it is net a desire for mrer revenge that led our brothers end sisters into the course of action they have chosen. Svery @ay, all of us experience the dehumanization ef teins kidnatred: of having to sell cur labor sower -- our very life clood -- up “or ransoa, tca bess, in order to pay ° - : ° tee be Ye et ser rh a ein the urec lug. “his snroule dis- mart oe eet ge - Aw aS > . . cs . = . ws whee C. PBL YL ee : : . : solve once and ufer,ell the naive assuaptions stout human coreiticns, sy “with regard to who is re-lly proletarian: anc should reveal the missicnary nature of the SLA's slogan "our interest’ is to serve and defend the people". The “people” (i.e., the troletariat) is anycne sho has no poner cver their activities and the a a ee ok bh ome eet Ue paren thoy miect efll them ta aeemebody else. This does. Ex 7s 2a : Ace! evirticaliiy ee lee Natetning® Me