Recording of the three speakers invited to address the twentieth anniversary benefit celebration for the Guardian, the radical weekly newspaper, held at the Fillmore East. (00:00:00) Introduction by Radio Free People; (00:00:50) Oglesby discusses the political system and future of the New Left and left movements under the coming Nixon administration; (00:20:15) Bernardine Dohrn introduction for Herbert Marcuse; (00:20:45) Marcuse discusses the situation of the left (and New Left) in sustaining and transforming the U.S. political system focusing on the opposition of the majority to revolutionary change; (00:48:24) H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin) critiques the infantile, bourgeois, cultural nastiness of white people; discusses the difference between militancy, radicalism, and revolution, criticizing the Guardian for not being revolutionary, political leadership, role of Black Americans in politics.
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