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Following the relative success in 1964-5 of student organizing as opposed to the failure of community organizing, in 1966 the New Left began to overturn the traditional Marxist focus on the proletariat, arguing that the Left should answer the needs of students and tap student power.

One SDS publication stated that " the revolution may come from the universities after all if Berkeley is any indication.

" A 1967 pamphlet, The Student as Nigger, attempted to cast students as a marginalized class.

Other pamphlets and movement periodicals warned students not to get into discussions with their teachers about politics, since professors were part of the academic establishment attempting to oppress the student.