The Yale Method by the Black Panthers, circa 1970. All rights reserved. For personal use only. All typos in the original document have been preserved, and hopefully no new ones have been added. To us, Yale's actions in the preparation for MayDay typify its slippery nature as the archtype of the liberal-repressive institution.
Liberals are essential to the smooth functioning of modern capitalist society.
Liberal dissent allows those who are running the government, the military or the universities to see where the problems created by their rule are, to understand what is bo thering people and to develop ideas of how, with a little reshuffling, things could be run more smoothly. Without liberals, problems would remain unsolved until major changes were needed to retain the status quo. This is essentially the role Yale is playing in relation to the Panthers. The nger of Yale students, becasue of the job being done on the Panthers, began to grow and reach an explosion point. To cooopt this angter and turn it into harmless bourgeois dissent was Yale's strategy.