Two days after that, on October 8, the Weathermen tried to jump-start the revolution. Their analysis led them to the conclusion that thousands of young people would gather in Chicago in solidarity with the conspiracy defendants to tear down Pig City. One of their major organizing efforts had been among the toughs in working-class high schools, alienated proletarians who, their dialectic concluded, would flock to radicals who didn’t just talk. The revolution would finally have been made concrete. The war would be brought home. Youth would “feel the Vietnamese in ourselves”—and the third world,
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