Summary: The Weather Underground

As on date the group is at best 37 strong (Subcommittee Report - The Weather Underground 1975, 43). The fact that the Weatherman went underground was the decline of the organization. Mao who is the master of this ideology postulates that for any revolutionary movement to succeed there has to be an overt political faction that works to create mass base amongst people along with the armed struggle. The Weatherman by going underground not only alienated themselves but also lost out on creating a mass base of overt popular support (if ever there was one). Mao postulates that Insurgents can swim like fishes among the masses but the Weatherman who were at best Domestic Terrorists didn’t have much public support and their organizational structure of a clandestine Central Committee further alienated themselves. Bombings after the group went clandestine were with pre-warnings and against property, further reason for the government to target them as hooligans and criminals. The source of the groups funding is chiefly from their own money, though they did obtain some money from the jailbreak of Timothy Leary and through forgery of checks.

There was foreign influence but was limited to in their initial stages (FBI Part 1 of 6 1976). There are no political affiliations and the no noticeable propaganda that can make any significant impact on the students or the masses. The Prairie Fire is just a romanticized idea of evolution and does not have the endorsement of the masses and nor does any grievances exist to legitimize this. The group vacillated from outside support to the African American revolutionary. They have no international support under the present circumstances, though their emergence can be attributed to instigation by our enemies. Their leaders are charismatic but have no ties to mass base to