Jim Farmelant wrote:
>
> I take it Carrol that you are going to give us
> the early history of Michael Lerner,
> way back before he became a "rabbi" but who
> has been a big A-hole.
In part. But after I finally found the issue, I decided that quite independently of Lerner the account was worthwhile. For one thing, it does give the feel of one large aspect of the '60s. Even in areas where nothing like the madness of SLF occurred things got pretty silly at times. One SDS leader here left a pocket notebook in our car (we didn't discover it until some years later as it had sunk in behind the back seat). One of the entries was a definition of a revolutionary as someone who rode around town on his motorcycle smoking mariuana and carrying a pistol in his back pocket. (I really don't know whether he was joking or not.) The particular person turned out very well later on, and is a useful citizen (that's only 5% ironic), but in the winter of 1969-70 he smashed the local SDS by going over to what had been a very small weatherman faction and carrying most of the chapter with him.
I had forgotten the part about Sundance -- and I still don't know who or what they were. I also enjoy the casual slap at Weatherman in the account, Weatherman and a certain former ISU dean being the only two real grudges I still hold.
As far as I know, Dohrn has never issued a formal public apology for the damage she and her cronies did, and she did a hell of a lot more damage than a hundred assholes like Lerner could do.
Incidentally, I've located issues 6 & 8 of SR, and they contain no follow-up to the account I'm sending, but I haven't located issue 7 yet, and I don't remember at all whether there was a follow-up or letter defending SLF. Anyone with access to old issues of Socialist Revolution might check.
Carrol