Talk:League for Industrial Democracy

Let's split this donkey ASAP

I'd like to support the unsigned comment below. I was somewhat active in those days (I know personal info isn't desired but I am offering here to support a comment, not for an article), and my recollection is that LID provided a grant for the creation of the SDS. The LID pre-existed the SDS and was never identical with it. There was a Student LID and it served as a nucleus for what became the SDS. It is incorrect to assert, as does the article, that the LID and the SDS were the same.LAWinans (talk) 22:09, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

The Intercollegiate Socialist Society and the League for Industrial Democracy, despite their organizational continuity, absolutely, positively need to be split into two separate articles, in my opinion. Carrite (talk) 19:18, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

This article is totally inaccurate. SDS was a branch of the LID for students, so it is NOT CORRECT to say that LID and SDS were the same organization. LID in fact forcibly detached itself from SDS after the Port Huron Statement was publicized, because the Port Huron Statement was too radical for LID, and SDS was cut loose from LID after that. LID disintegrated on its own because of its own reformism, while SDS split into different parts, some Maoist, and some associated with the Weathermen, but this article does not do that history justice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.237.249.228 (talk) 18:07, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Organizational Update

The article suggests that the L.I.D. still exists. I do not believe this is accurate, I have not been able to locate an existing organization. It appears to have dissolved, if not formally then informally. LAWinans (talk) 22:14, 4 June 2020 (UTC)