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> > I strongly recommend Junius Scales's "Cause at Heart". He was a CP leader > from North Carolina who was imprisoned for a Smith Act violation. He has > some great scenes describing his friendship with mafia boss Vincente > Gigante in Sing Sing, the guy who used to feign senility by walking around > Greenwich Village in a bathrobe. Thanks. I read a collection of oral histories with Scale's and his family. It was excellent -- especially his descriptions of communist organizing in the 1930s and his and his wife's explanations of their early politicization: http://aredfamily.com/ Scales' vivid description of poverty in Appalachia and the deep South during the Depression show why communism was so attractive. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
