I am saddened to find that the socialists and radicals generally are splitting into the inevitable little groups and cliques - this always happens to the left people. Why is it? From the earliest times of which I have read, the Russian revolutionaries split up; and now the Russians and the Chinese, and over here it is the same. The Negroes in Harlem are furious that Dr. Martin Luther King came up and visited with the Mayor about the riots. The radical Negroes (Malcolm X, Rob Williams in Cuba, Worthy, Epton, Lynn et al) are split off from the conservative groups such as the NAACP, the CORE and so it goes. My own opinion is that it hurts the big cause.
I have for 45 years been FOR the Russians and am now FOR the Chinese, without one bit abating my respect and love and admiration for the Soviets. I understand why they want peace and security; they've arrived, they are not afraid any more of being strangled, so they want everything to be nice and peaceful so they can have their cars and TV sets, and the good living they deserve and have worked so hard for. But the Chinese have not yet reached that stage - they are lean and hungry, only 15 years old, with the hot blood of youth and the hungry belly...
Heighos how differently I feel now than I did when I was 20 (I'm now 75) end wanted to take on the world. I still feel pretty cocky and always side with the fighters, the revolutionists. I'm hopeful that the Neg?o.es will keep right on rioting, bursting out in one city after another - it is amazing (amusing, if it weren't so damned dangerously serious) to see the wiy our white upper bourgeoisie are falling all over themselves to give the Negroes what they want. You will see, even Catholic-dominated New York will, as soon as the thunder dies down...The goddam hypocrites- say. _ "The Communists did it." By God, did the Communists build those noisome slums? Did a Communist murier that little Negro boy? Did the Communists deny, for 100 years, jobs and housing and any kind of equality to the Negro? Communists, ny eye, but it is a wonderful scape goat for this lousy, hypocritical socie over here, Taylor Adams (publisher of The Other Side, Box 1015 GCPO N.Y. 17