Weatherman "liberals" did not exist. These were hard core revolutionaries who hated Liberals even more than they did conservatives. Their greatest fear was that Liberals would "coopt" the revolution.
Exactly right.The Weatherfolks believed the "corporate liberals"were the REAL enemy.In fact,they welcolmed police repression because it would RADICALIZE the liberals.They wanted total polarization and eventual civil war in which the black ghetto dwellers,the student radicals and hippie lumpen would overthrow the system and then they would bring in a coalition of the third world from China,Cuba,Africa and Vietnam to rule as a prelude to establishing a communist-small"c"- society.
You might be surprised to know how many of these ex-radicals are comfortably ensconsed in the upper middle class they previously reviled.I remember one Leftist from Berkeley who at least LIVED his ideals-Frank Bardacke of the Oakland Seven-who quit it all to pick fruit for years in the Salinas area with Mexican farmworkers.He learned Spanish and became a union organizer.I may not like a lot of this man's politics but I RESPECT a man like this who LIVES his beliefs,unlike Dohrn and Ayers who are now The Establishment they so hated long ago!