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Campus communist Nancy Whitley is lad away by Eugene police officers following an incldant last year
involving ex-hostage Victor Tomsath. In the background is John Kaiser, another RCYB member.
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Radicalism remains on campus, although In smaller doses than
In past decades. Two 'revolutionaries’discuss their own brand of
Marxism, Leninism and Maoism.
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What turns a person into an
avowed revolutionary?
For Nancy Whitley and Claire
Cheng, members ot the Revolu
tionary Communist Youth
Brigade, it was the situation in
Iran and the results of the last
' presidential election
Whitley, a 29-year-old
sociology freshman, describes
her Colorado background as
upper middle class Whitley
I says she became a member of
RCYB as a result of what she
perceived as wrong-doing in
Iran on the part of the United
States
Prior to this, she says she was
a "pacifist.” but now feels the
times call for the efforts of the
RCYB
‘No one likes the system,"
Whitley says "There's a lot of
anger The anger needs to be
\ redirected towards what caused
it — instead of people fighting
each other ' ’
Cheng, 22. is a junior English
major, and she describes her
Midwest background as "mid
dle class " Events in Iran and
the last presidential election
swayed Cheng to the RCYB
"There was no choice in Vie
last election It shattered any
illusions about bourgeois
democracy," Cheng says.
The RCYB is the youth branch
of The Revolutionary Commun
ist Party that is based in
Chicago. Ill The Eugene group
has a core of eight people The
youth branch of the party gen
erally is "more outrageous,"
Cheng says
The form of communism the
RCYB uses as its theoretical
basis is called Marxism/Lenin
ism and Mao Tse-tung Thought
"What's to be Done" written
' " ' -
by Lenin in 1902, is the primary
eouroe of study for die RCYB.
Cheng says they also read Mao
and works by Kart Marx
Whitley and Cheng are quick
to differentiate MarxismLenin
ism and Mao Tse-tung Thought
from communism as practiced
in the Soviet Union. They con
sider the Soviet Union to be
under a system they call "state
capitalism "
European communism, which
they term "revisionism,” has the
cover of being communistic, but
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