Rebels With A Cause

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Mar 21 07:14:03 PST 2001


Chris Kromm wrote:
>
> > 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 knew that sentence was bungled -- I meant to say what you just said.
:-)

Carrol



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