Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

It was soon apparent to the Jordan administration that, despite the headline news of his hiring, Har Dayal was not a good fit for Stanford after all. The tipping point seems to have been Jordan’s receipt of notes from a Radical Club meeting on the topic of “heroes… who have killed rulers and dynamited buildings,” but apparently the decision to part was mutual. At that point Stanford classes were the least important part of Har Dayal’s work. A month after he left his position at the school, he launched the Fraternity of the Red Flag, an IWW-inspired revolutionary association committed to communism as well as the abolition of racism, patriotism, private property, marriage, government, religion, and metaphysics.