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Mark Rudd

Yes, this is the Mark Rudd from the sixties.

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Welcome to MarkRudd.com

Yes, this is the Mark Rudd from the sixties of the last century. But I'm still very much alive and active in the twenty-first. You can find out more about me here. I’ve recently published Underground: My Life in SDS and Weatherman, covering the years 1965-1977. Here you'll find comments and reviews of the book plus some outtakes. You can contact me here.

The site has four sections organizing essays and links on topics I am particularly interested in: SDS and Weather includes memoir and critique of the Weather Underground and my role in it. Organizing and Activism Now looks at the problem of how to apply the organizing tradition which built all the social and political mass movements of our country's history. Anti-imperialism includes content from a variety of sources on the nature of US imperialism and its opposition, historical and contemporary. In Violence and Nonviolence I use my own experience with "armed struggle" forty years ago to explain why only nonviolent strategy can create social and political change in this country. You'll also find links and other pieces on nonviolence.

Latest Essay

Che and Me

From the first moment I heard about Che, Ernesto Guevara, he was my man, or, rather, I was his. Brilliant, young, idealistic, a daring commander of rebels, willing to risk his life to free the people of the world, I wanted to be like him. Who wouldn’t fall for this rifle-toting poet who wrote, “At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”

Recent Essays

• Che and Me
• Good Description of Mark Rudd at Columbia, 1968
  by Hilton Obenzinger
• Obama and the return of the real (2009)
  by Jonathan Schell
• The kids are all right (2005)
• The death of SDS
• The best thing ever written about the Weathermen
  by Peter Marin
• Something Happening Here; LA Times Op-Ed Nov. 10, 2005
• Anti-imperialism and its discontents: An interview with Mark Rudd, founding member of the Weather Underground
  by Sina Rahmani
• Notes from the underground: ‘How could you do this to me?’ asks Mark Rudd’s Mom
  by Robert Wiener
• Still angry after 38 years: a pissed-off SDS member gets in his licks
  by Tom Cleaver