SDS

The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was the pre-eminent student movement organization of U.$. history. Active from 1960 to the early 1970s, the problem with the SDS is that its history is increasingly dominated by social-democrats who did not like its increasing radicalization throughout the 1960s. Joining the social-democrats who never agreed with SDS are certain less important members of SDS who have since sold out and also many SDS leaders themselves who got jobs and families and now sing a different tune.

We at MIM believe it is possible to have a job and still maintain a revolutionary scientific outlook. We don't recommend that imperialist country movement leaders also have children, because that proves to be just about the kiss of death for time and energy for the movement. After the career and family take hold, many grope to ideologies justifying their current lack of energy and conquering attitude for the revolutionary movement. The main point is that the positions put forward by SDS in its day were either right or wrong. Those positions deserve discussion beyond how they offended people or came associated with interesting biographies or simply involved too much commitment to be sustained anymore. (Progressive Labor Party (PLP), Weatherman and Revolutionary Youth Movement II were factions in SDS in the late 1960s, which is why we refer to those factions by name below.)

MIM's overview introduction of SDS