[lbo-talk] port huron

[Max Sawicky]

SDS came out of the League for Industrial Democracy, an anti-communist,
social-democratic, labor-aligned formation.  (Labor in the sense of unions
that had purged themselves of their CP-USA roots.)  So the 'Old Left' in
this case refers to LID, Harrington, the Schachtman types in the Socialist
Party, and the Americans for Democratic Action.

The Port Huron statement became invisible in a few years, as SDS evolved.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:34 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:


>
> . . .
> Anyway, in the book Polletta is talking about how, during the drafting
> of the statement, Hayden and Michael Harrington duked it out and got
> in a heated battle over their position on communism. I learn here that
> the problem with the old Left, according tot he New left, was its
> anti-communism.
>
> What? Really? I had never heard that one - that the Old left was
> anti-communist or that the New Left criticized them for it.
>
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