future, if you will—and we believe in changing the lives of everyone, and in participatory democracy for everyone. Second, because that is the social class or psychological pattern from which we come and which we best understand. —The social importance of students is increasing at a much greater rate than indicated simply by their numerical growth. In our highly industrialized society, the rate of scientific knowledge and technological innovation is growing at a logarithmic rate. These statistics not only demonstrate the present (absolute) growth of the new working class (the new, highly-educated, technical state) but also demonstrates that the rate of growth in this direction is rapidly increasing. The powers of average offices become as infinitely divisible as money. Students, in that they will by and large constitute this new working class are becoming the most structurally relevant and necessary component of the productive processes of modern American capitalism. —There is a student movement. Something is afoot on the nation's campuses. What can we do with it? —The purpose of student confrontation is to force the administration to make 'blunders' which can be used to move students into action. —Educational work, petition campaigns, dorm canvassing, films, rallies, demonstrations , a pie in the face of the director, a disruption—all are important in raising critical issues. —Once the students are organized, connections are pointed out between campus issues and the revolutionary ideology. —Questions concerning the nature of the university and society are asked, and we are present to supply some answers. In this manner, through radical education, we begin to build a movement including others like ourselves who better understand America.
Radicals have the responsibility to explore the possibilities for the development of mass radical consciousness and attempt its organization among several other groups in the society. —For the activist concerned with organizing a massive opposition movement, draft counseling really has two purposes: to reach people and politicize them. We must not simply act and react (becoming slaves to spontaneity). We must build a movement which sees the draft as one part of its perspective, a movement which can alter our own political effectiveness by organization and strategy and our understanding by analysis and education, a movement which sees the draft in relation to both larger and smaller problems. At that point draft counseling becomes an effective too! for a resistance movement. —The issue of the draft suggests a whole range of possibilities for direct action. The induction center is an ideal and logical focus for
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