Why does Rudd feel guilty and shameful about the way he and his fellow radicals came to protest the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s?
In the preface to Underground: My Life With SDS and The Weathermen, Mark Rudd explains that for many years he didn’t discuss his radical activism in the 1960s because of his “guilt and shame” (ix). Why does Rudd feel guilty and shameful about the way he and his fellow radicals came to protest the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s? Do you think Rudd’s feelings of “guilt and shame” are warranted? Put differently, do you think The Weatherman and the Weather Underground did more harm or did more good when it came to ending the war and fighting for the rights and liberties of colonized peoples both at home and abroad?
