Mellen was a principal author, although Mr. Bill Ayers, one of the group’s principals, said in a phone interview that Mr. Mellen was one of the 11 Weathermen members who signed the manifesto. imperialism and the achievement of classless world: world communism.” The group took its name from its famous 1969 manifesto, “You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows”- the title taken from a line from the Bob Dylan song “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” It called for white and Black revolutionaries to band together with other insurgent groups to bring about “the destruction of U.S. ![]() faction that came to be known as the Weathermen. Taking up the cause of young radicals nationwide, despite the fact that he was a decade older than many of them, he became a vocal supporter of Students for a Democratic Society, an antiwar activist organization with chapters on college campuses around the country, and one of the original members of the militant S.D.S. Mellen’s rise within the so-called New Left began when he lost his job teaching political science and international affairs at Drew University in Madison, N.J., in 1965 after a speech at a teach-in in which, he told a television reporter, he had said he agreed with t he historian Eugene Genovese’s stated view that “the impending Vietcong victory in Vietnam” wasn’t something to be feared or regretted. ![]() ![]() His wife, Terry Baumgart, said the cause was chronic pulmonary obstructive disease. Jim Mellen, a Marxist former college professor and ideological firebrand who in the 1960s became a founding member and philosophical leader of the Weathermen, the headline-grabbing brigade of far-left revolutionaries, died on Feb.
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