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[[File:Sdsorgchart.JPG|thumb|475px|right|Organizational chart of the SDS prepared for Congressional Investigators by the FBI.]]

[[File:Sdsorgchart.JPG|thumb|475px|right|Organizational chart of the SDS prepared for Congressional Investigators by the FBI.]]

'''Students for a Democratic Society''' ('''SDS''') was founded by  

'''Students for a Democratic Society''' ('''SDS''') was founded by  

[[Aryeh Neier]] (Director of the socialist [[League for Industrial Democracy]])<ref>[http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2000w09/msg00138.htm The birth of the "New Left"?], email discussion March 2000. </ref> in 1960. Its principles were elaborated by [[Tom Hayden]] in the [[Port Huron Statement]] of 1962, which adopted the position of "anti-[[anti-Communism]]," refusing to support the West in the [[Cold War]].<ref> [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6723 SDS, Discoverthenetworks.org]</ref> What began as a movement to involve the largest possible number of American students in the democratic processes had become by 1969, as a contemporaneous FBI memo summarizes, "an organization totally dedicated to the destruction of American society...In the span of seven years, the SDS had evolved into a hard line Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organization dedicated to the destruction of Western democratic traditions and ideals."<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976. Section I. Ideology D. [http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1b.pdf ''Influence of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse-tung Thought''], Page 56 in original (p. 19 pdf).</ref>

Aryeh Neier (Director of the socialist [[League for Industrial Democracy]])<ref>[http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2000w09/msg00138.htm The birth of the "New Left"?], email discussion March 2000. </ref> in 1960. Its principles were elaborated by [[Tom Hayden]] in the Port Huron Statement of 1962, which adopted the position of "anti-anti-Communism," refusing to support the West in the [[Cold War]].<ref> [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6723 SDS, Discoverthenetworks.org]</ref> What began as a movement to involve the largest possible number of American students in the democratic processes had become by 1969, as a contemporaneous FBI memo summarizes, "an organization totally dedicated to the destruction of American society...In the span of seven years, the SDS had evolved into a hard line Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organization dedicated to the destruction of Western democratic traditions and ideals."<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976. Section I. Ideology D. [http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1b.pdf ''Influence of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse-tung Thought''], Page 56 in original (p. 19 pdf).</ref>

Several prominent SDS members organized [[Progressives for Obama]] in March of 2008. Among the organizers are [[Carl Davidson]], [[Mark Rudd]], and [[Todd Gitlin]]; while several Klonsky family members are represented, [[Mike Klonsky]] is conspicuously absent from the signers. <ref>[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/hayden_et_al/print Progressives for Obama], By Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich, ''The Nation'', March 24, 2008.</ref><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'', Page 58 in original (p. 21 pdf).</ref>

Several prominent SDS members organized [[Progressives for Obama]] in March of 2008. Among the organizers are [[Carl Davidson]], [[Mark Rudd]], and [[Todd Gitlin]]; while several Klonsky family members are represented, [[Mike Klonsky]] is conspicuously absent from the signers. <ref>[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/hayden_et_al/print Progressives for Obama], By Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich, ''The Nation'', March 24, 2008.</ref><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'', Page 58 in original (p. 21 pdf).</ref>