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Jesse Lemisch takes on Bill Ayers

My "Weather Underground Rises from the Ashes: They're Baack" (New Politics, Summer 2006) sheds light on the current Bill Ayers kerfuffle and the attempted rehabilitation of Weather by presenting it as just another mode of expression of anti-Vietnam War sentiment. The article deals with bombing, but goes beyond the debate around this issue to Ayers' essential dishonesty and the destructive quality of Weather's amazing"Fight the People" politics. Ayers' Fugitive Days is shown to be, among other things, soft-core sexual triumphalism, and full of falsifications poorly masked by academic postmodernism ("memory is a motherfucker," says Ayers).

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