Changes

Near the end of the Democratic National Convention, Tom Hayden reportedly went around to the various leaders including [[Rennie Davis]] and [[Bobby Seale]] and asked that when they returned to their home states they continue what began in Chicago.  The [[FBI]] summarized the activity at the Democratic National

Near the end of the Democratic National Convention, Tom Hayden reportedly went around to the various leaders including [[Rennie Davis]] and [[Bobby Seale]] and asked that when they returned to their home states they continue what began in Chicago.  The [[FBI]] summarized the activity at the Democratic National

Convention as follows:

Convention as follows:

:"... Rarely has any city been threatened all at one time with an invasion of 100 to 200 -thousand dissidents- plots to [[assassin]]ate [[government]]al dignitaries and prominent individuals; intentions to instigate major riots in varied ways widespread [[sabotage]] of communication, transportation and electrical systems- proposals to pour [[hallucinogen]]ic [[drugs]] into the water supply; clandestine shipments of [[arms]] and [[ammunition]] into the city for use in sniper activities-and myriad forms of [[guerrilla warfare]]." ...

{{cquote|... Rarely has any city been threatened all at one time with an invasion of 100 to 200 -thousand dissidents- plots to [[assassin]]ate [[government]]al dignitaries and prominent individuals; intentions to instigate major riots in varied ways, widespread [[sabotage]] of communication, transportation and electrical systems- proposals to pour [[hallucinogen]]ic [[drugs]] into the water supply; clandestine shipments of [[arms]] and [[ammunition]] into the city for use in sniper activities-and myriad forms of [[guerrilla warfare]]." ...}}

==Maoist influence at the June 1969 SDS National Convention==

==Maoist influence at the June 1969 SDS National Convention==

The following year all factions present at the SDS National Convention held in Chicago in June 18-22, 1969 adhered to the general over-all line of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) and the Chinese world view that attributed the source of global conflict from tension between the colonial and former colonial peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America on the one hand, and the forces of imperialism led by United States imperialism on the other." The unfolding of the conflict between the [[national liberation movement]] of the [[Viet Cong]] and "forces of United States imperialism" and its "puppet regime in [[Saigon]]" would provide an example for peoples of the Third World to unite in the defeat of US imperialism and the establishment of a "world socialist order."

The following year all factions present at the SDS National Convention held in Chicago on June 18-22, 1969 adhered to the general over-all line of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) and the Chinese world view that attributed the source of global conflict from tension between the colonial and former colonial peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America on the one hand, and the forces of imperialism led by United States imperialism on the other. The unfolding of the conflict between the [[national liberation movement]] of the [[Viet Cong]] and "forces of United States imperialism" and its "puppet regime in [[Saigon]]" would provide an example for peoples of the Third World to unite in the defeat of US imperialism and the establishment of a "world socialist order."

This contrasted sharply with the traditional orthodox view of [[Moscow]] which relied heavily on a dialectical "force of history" that would inevitably bring about the "objective conditions" necessary for a proletarian revolution to succeed. Traditional Soviet theoreticians regarded any concept that skipped stages of historic development as dangerous and "counter revolutionary."<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976. Section I. Ideology D. ''Influence of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse-tung Thought'', Pages 56-57 in original (pp. 19-20 pdf).</ref>

This contrasted sharply with the traditional orthodox view of [[Moscow]] which relied heavily on a dialectical "force of history" that would inevitably bring about the "objective conditions" necessary for a proletarian revolution to succeed. Traditional Soviet theoreticians regarded any concept that skipped stages of historic development as dangerous and "counter revolutionary."<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976. Section I. Ideology D. ''Influence of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse-tung Thought'', Pages 56-57 in original (pp. 19-20 pdf).</ref>