Color me skeptical.

I rather doubt that the weathermen spent much time pondering the logistics of post revolutionary governance. They were pretty caught up in the “urgency of now;” trying to create the revolutionary condition, rather than managing it.

The whole rationale for the “New Left” was combining radical resistance to Capital while rejecting Soviet style bureaucratism. This entailed absorbing a lot of Syndico-Anarchism, the greatest of heresies to Marxists. These people did not join the CPUSA precisely because their intention was to rush past the dictatorship of the proletariat and get on with the withering of the state.

I really find it hard to believe that radical intellectuals of the period would sit around and talk about precisely the stuff they found objectionable about the official Communist party.

Methinks it be a canard.

However, that isn’t to say that there isn’t a lot of bare butt stupidity among the educated elite. AGW is the richest mother lode today.

Here’s Lord Monckton on the adventures of Steve McIntyre with the educated idiots:

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/monckton/monckton_what_hockey_stick.pdf