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The spirit of the paper during the first ten years of its existence was summed up in a Feb. 1, 1969 staff editorial :" We believe that people who are serious in their criticism of this society and their desire to change it must involve themselves in serious revolutionary struggle.

We do not believe that music is revolution.

We do not believe that dope is revolution.

We do not believe that poetry is revolution.

We see these as part of a burgeoning revolutionary culture.

They cannot replace political struggle as the main means by which the capitalist system will be destroyed.

The Man will not allow his social and economic order to be taken from him by Marshall amps and clashing cymbals.

Ask the Cubans, the Vietnamese or urban American blacks what lengths the system is willing to go to, to preserve itself.