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'''Carl Oglesby'''
 
'''Carl Oglesby'''
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A summary history of [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS), was written by the [[House Internal Security Committee]] (HISC), October 6, 1970, after having held 7 sets of hearings (some were labelled Part A & B) from 1969-70 ("Investigations of Students for a Democratic Society").
 
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[[Carl Oglesby]] was one of the earliest national leaders of SDS, elected as its national president during their National Council meeting of Labor Day 1965 (cited in 'Anatomy of a Revolutionary Movement: "Students for a Democratic Society"', Report, [House Internal Security Committee] (HISC), Oct. 6, 1970, in Footnote 6, "New left Notes", July 8, 1968, P. 5 on P. 30 of this report).
 
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Mentioned on P. 31 of "Anatomy" as SDS president "at the time of the LID-SDS splitup..." [[LID]] was a social democratic organization known as [[League for Industrial Democracy]], and had a youth arm, [[Student League for Industrial Democracy]] (SLID), from which a good number of SDS leaders and members came, including [[Tom Hayden]].
 
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From P. 33, "Anatomy", came the following about Ogleby's early ideology positions.
 
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"As SDS president Carl Oglesby expressed in in a speech at an atni-war conference in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 1965, "liberal Government leaders were protectors of an American corporate system which exploited foreign countries for profit and south to give moral sanction to these efforts by describing them as anticommunist. Oglesby acknowledged the 'bittuer ugliness' of Soviet tanks invading Hungary and conceded that communist revolutions had been and would continue to be 'bloody and tyrannous.' He deplored, however, an American foreign policy aimed at suppressing such revolutions and expressed himself as being more concerned over 'more vicious' rightwing tyrannies aided in the course of such a foreign policy." (Ftnt 21)<ref>Ftnt 21: Carl Oglesby, "Trapped in a System," [[The New Left: A Documentary History]], pp. 182-183. Manipulaative "corporate liberalism" was also the system attacked by SDS vice president [[Carl Davidson]] in [[New Left Notes]] in September 1968."
 
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"The official news bulletin of the LID, which severed connections with SDS at the end of 1965, complained that the youth organization failed to judge American and communist policies by the same standard and was indulging in a kind of 'reactive anti-American establishmentarianism.'" [[News Bulletin]], LID Winter 1966."</ref>.
 
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From P. 40 of "Anatomy", in a subsection entitled "New Left Versus Old Left", concerning where the New Left was going in terms of ideology, the report wrote the following:
 
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"The lack of a clear-cut program for specific goals was deplored by the retiring national president, Carl Oglesby, at the SDS national convention in August 1966. "In SDS there is a deep concern that something is wrong with American and that certain institutions are responsible," he declared in his convention speech. "We need to develop greater clarity about what we thing the world ought to be like." The youthful organizatio offered no political platform for change, he noted at another point." (Ftnt 52).<ref> Michael Munk, "New Left: The Ideological Issues," [[National Guardian]], Sept. 25, 1965, pp. 3,4</ref>.
 
  
 
==Socialist Scholars Conference 1990==
 
==Socialist Scholars Conference 1990==
 
The {{#switchtablink:1990|Socialist Scholars Conference 1990|Socialist Scholars Conference}}, held September 6-8, at the Hotel Commodore, New York, included panels such as:<ref>Second Annual Socialist Scholars Conference program.</ref>
 
The {{#switchtablink:1990|Socialist Scholars Conference 1990|Socialist Scholars Conference}}, held September 6-8, at the Hotel Commodore, New York, included panels such as:<ref>Second Annual Socialist Scholars Conference program.</ref>
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From P. 78 of "Anatomy", Oglesby was listed as elected to the "upgraded national interim committee" which attended the SDS convention June 9-15, 1968, at East Lansing, Michigan.
 
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On page 85 of the subsection entitled "Increased Talk of Violence and Armed Struggle", Oglesby was quoted in the following paragraph.
 
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"The militant language also cropped up at rallies held on some of the Nation's campuses as an apparently common substitute for the so-called strike urged by the [[SDS National Council]] around the isue of the national elections on November 5, 1968. The four universities in the area of [[Washington, D.C.]], had rallies on November 4 attended by a total estimated turnout of no more than 700 students. Each was addressed in turn by SDS national interim committee member, Carl Oglesby. Oglesby's advice to the students at the [[George Washington University]] rally, as recorded by the press, was that "going to the streets" was the students' only alternative because the "system" had shut off all possibility of peaceful change." (Ftnt 143).<ref>[[Jody Allen Gorran]],[[Paul B. Sherburne]], and [[Donald T. Appell]], testimony HCIS (HISC) hearings on SDS, parts 3-A and 3-B, (George Washington University), July 22 and 23, 1969; [[Guardian]], Nov. 16, 1968, p. 20.</ref>.
 
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From P. 89 in "Anatomy", subsection entitled "SDS Votes to Build a Revolutionary Youth Movement", came the following about Oglesby's position on this subject, P. 89.
 
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"Some clue to the outlook of the majority of the SDS national leadership in the 1968-69 academic year may be contained in a speech by Carl Oglesby, member of the national interim committee, at a rally on December 5, 1968. "We're not waiting for something called the proletariat," (Ftnt 158) he reportedly declared. "* * * We're making history * * *." (Ftnte 157).
 
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<Ref>Ftnt 157: " A reference to the non-propertied working class - later interpreted to mean industrial workers - which Marx saw as the motive force for a communist revolution, and whose interests orthodox Marxist-Leninist parties alwasy claimed to represent." and Ftnt 158: "Guardian, Dec. 14, 1968.</ref>
 
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'''Conspiracy Theory'''
 
'''Conspiracy Theory'''

Revision as of 05:17, 16 February 2022

Carl Oglesby

Socialist Scholars Conference 1990

The Socialist Scholars Conference 1990, held September 6-8, at the Hotel Commodore, New York, included panels such as:[1]

Conspiracy Theory

"Who Killed Kennedy"

In February 1992, Carl Oglesby addressed a Boston Democratic Socialists of America forum, on "Who Killed President Kennedy?" [2]

Open Letter to Obama on Iran

In 2008 Carl Oglesby an Author, Amherst, MA signed an online petition “A Open Letter to Barack Obama on Iran”.[3]

References

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  1. ↑ Second Annual Socialist Scholars Conference program.
  2. ↑ Democratic Left, March/April, 1992, page 12
  3. ↑ Open Letter to Obama on Iran
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