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SDS was an important subject within the Soviet directed and funded [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) in early 1968. The CPUSA decided to fight for Moscow directed ideology within SDS; to include articles on SDS in its publications; and to begin to put many more CP youth (cadre) directly into SDS and into the SDS national office in order to get direct access to the SDS leadership. The need and possibility for greater CPUSA participation in SDS, and the possibilities for CPUSA recruitment from SDS, were emphasized. [[Rennie Davis]] at this time associated with Don Hamerquist of the CPUSA National Committee who was working with [[New Left]] organizations to formulate a program for a communist movement in the U.S.

SDS was an important subject within the Soviet directed and funded [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) in early 1968. The CPUSA decided to fight for Moscow directed ideology within SDS; to include articles on SDS in its publications; and to begin to put many more CP youth (cadre) directly into SDS and into the SDS national office in order to get direct access to the SDS leadership. The need and possibility for greater CPUSA participation in SDS, and the possibilities for CPUSA recruitment from SDS, were emphasized. [[Rennie Davis]] at this time associated with Don Hamerquist of the CPUSA National Committee who was working with [[New Left]] organizations to formulate a program for a communist movement in the U.S.

Mike Klonsky's RYM II faction, along with the Ayers/Dohrn Action Faction Weather Underground later were to purge all CPUSA elements from SDS leadership positions in favor of the Beijing directed Maoist strain of violent revolutionary communism.  CPUSA elements accused Maoists of the Marxist capital crime of [[deviationism]], as Maoists likewise accused Moscow directed operatives of the same [[heresy]].

Mike Klonsky's Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM II) faction, along with the Ayers/Dohrn Action Faction Weather Underground later were to purge all CPUSA elements from SDS leadership positions in favor of the Beijing directed Maoist strain of violent revolutionary communism.  CPUSA elements accused Maoists of the Marxist capital crime of [[deviationism]], as Maoists likewise accused Moscow directed operatives of the same [[heresy]].

==Maoist influence==

==Maoist influence==

The newly elected leaders of SDS, [[Mark Rudd]], [[Jeff Jones]] and [[Bill Ayers]], sent the following letter to [[Anna Louise Strong]] in China immediately after the Convention:

The newly elected leaders of SDS, [[Mark Rudd]], [[Jeff Jones]] and [[Bill Ayers]], sent the following letter to [[Anna Louise Strong]] in China immediately after the Convention:

{{cquote|Dear Comrade: Our Ninth Convnetion of SDS was highly honored to hear greetings from our best-loved revolutionary writer and champion of People's China, and the thought of Mao Tse Tung. With help and inspiration of our black and brown brothers and sisters, we have succeeded at this convnetion in overthrowing the counter-revolutionary PLP forces, who had attempted to seize power.  Long live our comrade Anna Louise Strong.  Long live People's China.  Long live Comrade Mao Tse Tung.  Victory to the peoples of the U.S.  Victory to the peoples of the entire world.<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976, [http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1c.pdf ''Influence of China''], Pages 144-145 in original (pp. 32-33 pdf).</ref>}}

{{cquote|Dear Comrade: Our Ninth Convnetion of SDS was highly honored to hear greetings from our best-loved revolutionary writer and champion of People's China, and the thought of Mao Tse Tung. With help and inspiration of our black and brown brothers and sisters, we have succeeded at this convnetion in overthrowing the counter-revolutionary PLP forces, who had attempted to seize power.  Long live our comrade Anna Louise Strong.  Long live People's China.  Long live Comrade Mao Tse Tung.  Victory to the peoples of the U.S.  Victory to the peoples of the entire world.<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976, [http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1c.pdf ''Influence of China''], Pages 144-145 in original (pp. 32-33 pdf).</ref>}}

==Other prominent members==

==Other prominent members==