Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ccice6.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccice5!ccice6!daf 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 Article-I.D.: ccice6.293 Posted: Wed Jan 16 12:12:20 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 00:59:41 EST Organization: The Wall Of Fog Lines: 19 > 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.