 I also like Henry David Thoreau, Mother Jones and Jane Addams [...]".In 1970, "The New York Times" called Ayers "a national leader" of the Weatherman organization and "one of the chief theoreticians of the Weathermen".The Weathermen were initially part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) within the SDS, splitting from the RYM's Maoists by claiming there was no time to build a vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States government and the capitalist system should begin immediately.