This is a title denoting a status that Ayers could easily live without. Why is he preoccupied with personal status when he could be with the comrades cutting sugarcane in Cuba and cultivating the ideology? This is the mark of a shallow and vain man. A man who wants status from established and traditional institution — the next thing you know he will want protection from the police — what happened to the revolution?
Like most "revolutionaries" of his sort, Ayers wasn't a revolutionary to aid anyone other than himself. He is nothing more than a failed Fidel Castro/Ernesto Guevara wannabe, and never was anything more.
He was willing to quite literally decimate the population of this country, to retain power, if he ever achieved it. And, what would the "poor downtrodden masses" get? If lucky, a bullet to the head, if not, a lifetime of slavery, for themselves and their posterity, while Ayers and Dohrn lived in luxury.
They are, and always were, complete frauds...
the infowarrior