I finally saw the award winning 2003 documentary on The Weather Underground, the 1970's dissident/terrorist organization which aspired to a sort of third world revolution in the US.
Not the most realistic movement in the history of the New Left.
The Weather Underground had its roots the early sixties civil rights and anti-war movements, chiefly in the faction ridden Students for a Democratic Society led by the noted historian of the New Left--and a favorite writer of mine--Todd Gatlin.
There seems to be about as many opinions on the Weather Underground as there were in the Sixties. Most Conservatives believe them to be nothing more than terrorists. Those in the far left--especially the Trotskyite/Nadar true believers--seem to hold a only thinly disguised admiration for them. Moderates like Gatlin, believed, then as now, that they embodied everything that was and is wrong with the Left: too ideological and uncompromising for its own good, and far, far too fanatical.
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