Bruce Miller at The Blue Voice has a long thoughtful essay on Tom Hayden’s review of Mark Rudd’s recent memoir of his days in the Weather Underground.
Rudd now sees the WU as cultish and I would agree. Thought deviation was not permitted. This includes WU members censoring their own thoughts because, since the accepted dogma [...]
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Tom Hayden on Mark Rudd. Weather Underground as cult
Tom Hayden on the Obama campaign
All summer Obama has offended his most ardent supporters, and lost countless others, while spending too much time ingratiating himself with people who will never vote for him in November.
The result, according to the Zogby poll, is telling: McCain surged ahead by five points this week, a gain of fifteen percent. Obama suffered a reversal [...]
This Brave Nation. Tom Hayden and Naomi Klein
From FireDogLake.
The final discussion in the This Brave Nation series is up — between Tom Hayden and Naomi Klein — and like all the others, it is fascinating. And inspiring. But, in this case, there is also a moment where Tom and Naomi are talking about how much activity and organization there is online…and how [...]
ZMag interviews Tom Hayden
Hayden touches on many important points in this wide-ranging interview on the publication of his new book Writings for Democratic Society.
One key quote:
The Sixties are on trial in this national election. Because of the broad brush of the Republicans and media, all of us who went through that time will be defendants this time. We [...]
