But David Horowitz remembers back to the late 60s, when Angela Davis became the lover and political comrade of George Jackson, a maximum security inmate in San Quentin prison, who was awaiting trial for pre-meditated murder. But to intimates on his own defense committee, George Jackson boasted that he was guilty as charged, and had killed twelve other men in prison besides. One of his revolutionary schemes was to poison the water system of Chicago, which was the city where he had grown up. And he can take his dormant case of AIDS back to Iowa or wherever and start it going there. This selection in the book may well offend the sensitivities of some in the homosexual community.
Denial is like that.
Activism and Racism A couple of definite failings of the authors may be due to their own perspectives. Well, the New Left were not the first Fifth Columnists, and student rioting and dropping acid and advocating treason would not have prospered without help from the media and government, among others. It is perhaps a matter of ego that these former radicals give themselves too much of the blame. In their eagerness to indict, say, a racist demagogue such as Stokely Carmichael, the authors absolve Martin Luther King, Jr. of his own dire culpability in matters of subversion, incitement to riot, and other transgressions. From their own knowledge of communism, the authors know better than to claim that just because the perhaps more radical Trotsky may have tactical differences with Lenin meant that Lenin should be defined as a moderate.