Mark Rudd - interview 3 of 5 by Jim Terr

"Famous 60s radical" Mark Rudd, on the publication of his memoir, UNDERGROUND: MY LIFE WITH SDS AND THE WEATHERMEN (see Mark's website, http://www.MarkRudd.com ), talks with Jim Terr and Vanessa Scobie about his book and his life. A fascinating interview if I do say so myself. In five parts:

PART ONE: With a particular emphasis on New Mexico
PART TWO: Irony, sexism, feminism, life underground in Santa Fe
PART THREE: Jewish mom, "primitive communism", land-based "peasant" community, wealth, casual New Mexico law enforcement, temporary insanity
PART FOUR: Background: Columbia, political theory, Che Guevara, Malcom X
PART FIVE: Reflections: Consensual power / Non-violence, the Brinks robbery, parents

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[Gnarlodious]

What he is talking about is how the role of government usurped the role of community in post-industrial societies. He compares this primitive humanism to communism, while ironically Communism was horrendously anti-community, even more so than capitalism. Most people think of Communism as communistic, but it is really Nationalism. So he is using the word in its original meaning, from before the word was propagandized in the 1930s. Not many young people know this about the word.