ON THE LEFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000201460001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 5, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ON THE LEFT
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universities" Spun ofrhy the New Left, which pose as
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vast, sterile campuses. In. reality, however, they are nothing
ftihar routine Marxist training schools withtualit-trappings, as revealed by the curriculum.
From YSNY summer catato-gue, 1966: "The Free
1:frriversirrof New'York lias 'been Thrged in response to
the intellectual bankruptcy and spiiitual emptiness of the
American educational establislim' ent: It' seeks . . . to pro-
mote--the social integrity ? and corn." eni-from which
scholars usually stand aloof."
The curriculum (identification of instructors as supplied
by the catalogue itself) : THE COLD WAR IN TRANSITION:
__M,....S.-Arnoni edits?" , The JI/iitority_of,One. PERSPEC-
TivES FOR AMERICAN RADICALS: "strategies and tech-
niques for building political radical movements," Stanley
Aronowitz, an editor of Studies on the Left. ALTERNATIVE
MAN: "sketching an image of the potential post-Revolu-
tionary man." Marlin-Glassy Yeshiva University. COM-
MUNITY ORGANIZATION, W1:19,,,WITATTANICWHY?: "how
on?e and overcomes (public media, schools, religion
and `culture') . . . A portion of the course will be spent
actually working in the Negro and Puerto Rican ghettoes."
Calvin Hicks, community organizer [Hicks, who has been
identified under oath as a member of the Communist Party,
worked for convicted Communist perjurer Carl Marzani
and also for Mobilization for Youth]. Foc"-BZ,7N---
harles Johnson, black Marxist-Leninist, visited
Cuba, 1964. FROM MICKEY MOUSE TO THE GREE,N
BERETS: Paul Krassner, editor of the Realist [and no
friend of Arnoni] and Dick Guindon, Realist cartoonist.
MARXISM AND AMERICAN DECADENCE [a causal rela-
tionship?] : Allen Krebs, director of the FSNY, ex-as-
sociate professor of sociology at Adelphi University, fired
after traveling to Cuba, 1964. THi RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
IN LITERATURE: Sharon Krebs. HISTORY OF THE LEFT
IN THE U.S.: George Kruger, editor, The Internationalist.
PERSPECTIVES FOR REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE: "This
course will attempt to define a political orientation for
Revolutionary Socialism." Levi Laub, organizer for the
[Maoist] Progressive Labor Party. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND
MARXISM: "Post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory . . . will
from a "
be discussed and criticized a perspective.
Constance Long. INTRODUCTION TO MARXISM: Gerald
Long, American Liberation League, editor, Liberation
USA. THE GHETTO?LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE: Conrad
Lynn [attorney, co-worker and friend of Progressive Labor
official William Epton]. ELEMENTARY COURSE IN MARX-
IST ECONOMICS: L. Marcus, professional economist and
Marxist. CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE U.S. TODAY: "Among
the topics will be the McCarthyist heritage, the F.B.I., Con-
gressional investigations, the Smith and McCarran Acts,
loyalty oaths . . ." James O'Brien. VIETNAM NATIONAL
LIBERATION FRONTS: "The transcendant contributions
made by the NLF and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
to the practice of democracy, Socialism and to the most
advanced form of government [i.e. Communism] will be
covered." Charlotte Polin, researcher, U.S. Committee to
Aid the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.
CREATIVE MATERIALISM: Len Ragozin, member of Pro-
gressive Labor philosophy group. BLACK AFRICA: "revolu-
tionary developments in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa
in the light of centuries of imperialist oppression." By a
representative of the Revolutionary Government of Tan-
zania. THEATRE AGAINST THE WAR IN VIETNAM: Peter
Schumann, director of the Bread and Puppet Theatre.
THE AMERICAN RADICAL TRADITION: James Weinstein,
an editor of Studies on the Left. [This list includes the
bulk of the FSNY curriculum, and omits only a few
courses of an artsy-craftsy nature?these, too, boasting
revolutionary perspective.]
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