> The Port Huron Statement never was radical. The original radical gesture
> of "Port Huron" SDS (SDS having had a long dull prior history as the
> student branch of the League for Industrial Democracy [this is not quite
> accurate]) was that they refused to deny membership to Communists. That
> marked them off sharply from the anti-communist left of the '50s. By the
> time I (as a faculty member) linked up with SDS in 66 or so the Port
> Huron Statement was long forgotten.
Not accurate. SDS was kicked out of LID *because* it refused to reject communists.
> I find it curious that you should think of Tom Hayden (a liberal creep)
> as the "best known member."
Whatever you think of his politics, he clearly *was* the "best known member."
Good rule of thumb: find facts first, rant later.