First Published: The Call, Vol. 9, No. 27, July 7-20, 1980.
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Two articles on GM, planned obsolescence and imports by the two people in L.A., were very good and useful because of the facts. The Call has really improved over the last two years. Your articles are very non-sectarian and usually factual. That’s the reason my mother has started reading it.
But you have to straighten out your line on the draft. Your draft articles by Duffy (Feb. 18) and Davidson (March 24) were terrible. They were supposed to answer why it was important to fight the draft. Instead, they mainly talked about dealing with Soviet aggression.
The Soviet threat to countries’ independence is obviously real, but Duffy and Davidson adopted your old “main blow” bull and didn’t even mention fighting U.S. imperialism once! Even though the anti-draft movement will have to deal with Soviet aggression (something the ’60s anti-draft movement didn’t have to worry about), the primary focus must be (at this time) targetting the U.S. war drive and then bringing in the question of fighting Soviet aggression.
Also, I would like to see an in-depth analysis of the internal workings of the USSR. I’ll agree it definitely isn’t socialist, but how do you analyze its economic base? Many of the old “proofs” of its being capitalist could now be applied to China, which, we would both agree, is socialist.
J.H., New York, N.Y.