Mark Rudd led the 1968 takeover of Columbia University, rioted at 1969's Days of Rage in Chicago, participated in a bombing campaign that took the life of his best friend in 1970, and spent the better part of the '70s evading the FBI. Then he grew up. Read my review @ First Principles of Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen, which details Mark Rudd's 1960s and the hangover that followed.
Good read. The following sums up nicely a lost group of people who wanted the power and position their backgrounds dictated but were too cowardly (or delusional), irresponsible, spoiled and self-centered to work for it.
“The amazing wealth provided the means to play revolutionary, a perverse noblesse oblige that caused them to act as Hessians fighting the class war for those too ignorant to wage it, the cultural conditioning to look down upon the cops and servicemen they targeted, and a sense of entitlement that fueled self-righteous demand after demand. Children whose brat fits ensured that they got what they wanted from their maids grew up to throw bombs along with their tantrums.”
And I get a chuckle out of little labels such as ‘praxis axis’ and ‘action faction’. Effective and accurate, yes, and probably sounded very hip back in the day.
Readers interested in late 1960s and early 1970s New Left history might also be interested in checking out "The Fugitive Generation" screenplay at the following blog link:
http://thefugitivegeneration.blogspot.com/2009/04/fugitive-generation-i.html
Also a book by Professor Stefan Bradley, titled "Harlem vs. Columbia University" that's being published by University of Illinois Press.
Those big talkers with the weak shoulders (i.e.Rudd,Billy Ayers,Dohrn,and the rest of their freakshow) talked tough like their communist heros,however,avoided any chance of physical confrontation,because they were incapable of going hand to hand with anyone tougher than a 5 year old girl.
They remind me of what I heard Mike Tyson say in his prime, "Everyone has a plan until they take that first punch in the face"
Those losers were nothing more than puppets and mouthpieces for Marxists. The communists knew these weak shouldered cowards were incapable of doing anything other than spreading lies and propaganda.
