” “Their founding document [the Weather Underground’s] called for the establishment of a “white fighting force” to be allied with the “Black Liberation Movement” and other “anti-colonial” movements[1] to achieve “the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism.”...”-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.”
I was a teenager in high school during this era. The chief problem they had then, and indeed suffer from today is most white people on the left are not willing to get down and bloody, and fight for ANYTHING. They are coddled, spoiled wimps ;-)
I've always thought that most of them started out as cowards and used left-wing politics as an 'excuse' for their refusal to fight.