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From: daf@ccice6.UUCP (David Fader)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The Left and Gun Control
Message-ID: <293@ccice6.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 12:12:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 12:12:20 1985
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>       I for one would like to put to rest a certain widespread miscon-
> ception: that the left favors gun control.  While I have no doubt that
> certain left-liberal and socialist organizations do promote either the
> registration of handguns or their complete abolition, the genuine 
> Marxists I have known (including a former member of the S.D.S
> Weathermen) take the line that gun control amounts to "disarming the
> proletariat" and you obviously cannot wage a successful revolution 
> without firearms.

I think you are confused about genuine Marxists.
S.D.S was Students For A Democratic Society.
The Weathermen split from S.D.S and were a seperate distinct group.

> I used to point out to this fellow that too many of
> his intrepid working class army were fascist in their political tastes,
> but that didn't sway him or any of his friends.

Assuming that you have always had the same mastery of concepts, I do not
find it surprising you could not sway them.