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whether “radically” administered or otherwise. “ut it is not a desire for mrer. revenge a 2. Open Letter tothe People (cont. ) contradictions had already begun to emerge among the aembership. Although some of the arothers end sisters asserted that to create a sositive vision of a new society re- quired serious thinking -- 2 clear and comprehensive theory and strategy -- others : te. inristed that all that was necessary was to yut yourself into situations where your—————~*" ~a$8 would get kicked and armed bravery would do the rest. Some of the brothers and sisters were complaining about the lack of democracy within the organization.. The justification for this was alvays that we were in a "state of war." eee, It increasingly tecame azsrarent to us that the Symbtionese Federation was not fun- oe Camentally opposed to the errors of the Left we had known, but vas rather the culmi- : nation of all its defects. The process of the organization was totally top-down. @ She War Ccuncil made decisions in secret and the members were exvected to obey orders without question, just as in a cavitalist army. Serious conflict develored over the subordination of the sunport units, as of all ‘non-nilitary activities of the orsanization, to the combat units: that is, the "Army" . came to te seen as the chief acent of the revolution. We began te sustect that ths SarrCouncil 7as manipulated either by some local risht-vinz organization zr the CIA itself. The secret decision to kill Marcus ‘foster, and its xecution, confirmed cur suspicions, ’ oe eee The kind of revolution ze've come to see as necessary hes nothins to do with an. VArmy'of the tyoe the SLA rorshi's. The world eccnony is entering a de’ression the like of which has not been seerbefore. People are finding out that Poppa the cazitalist and Momma the State are not going to deliver the goods anymore: no meat, no gas, and mayte no :read. If the goods are going to cet delivered, it has to be us, "“ocdinary" working people, who deliver them to us; who take over and run the closed-down farms, bakeries, and refineries, etc., and deliver the goods *o ourselves, That is the real revolution: when we take over the economy, our communities, and ell of society, and run them on our own behalf, If ve only look for another Hocmy or Daddy to do it for us -= a Fascist farty, a “Communist” Party, an SLA -- ve will just put ourselves sack where we started, only worse off -- living under a total police state. -The irony of the SLA kidnarving is this: that the life of yet one more human teing is traded for the berest necéssities of survival. Fatricia Hearst is being: exchanged for what amounts to a temrorary raise in state fcod stamp allotments. As revolutinnaries, we are not interested in just an extension of the selfare systen, that led our brothers and sisters into the course of action they have chosen. Every dey. at of us suneriernss the 4eburo nivcotion of roing bkidne syed: of having to sell cur labocs ;ower -- our very tife sloog -- uz for ransun, io 4a boss, in order to vay “{ugcur-survival, in order to be able to werk asain the nex’ doy. This should dis- solve once and for all the naive assumptions about human conditions, specifically with regard to who is re-lly preletarian: and should reveal the missionary nature of [TAL eo claran tanrw santoeroct A2 *n e@ecrves anh aafond thea renniot! Tha Hneaantoe't ~ f-