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Michael Hoover wrote:
> big difference between 36 and today re. above is that fdr did court
> variety of progressive types, in fact, he ran 36 campaign as
> 'progressive coalition' rather than DP candidacy, number of 'soft'
left
> leaders did sign on to become 'junior' partners,
> socialist/farmer-labor/communist/american labor/etc congressional
> candidates took big hits that year...
Well, there is a difference between FDR's snuggling up with the CPUSA
and John Kerry's back of the hand treatment towards anybody to the left
of Chuck Schumer, but I would prefer that the left have nothing to do
with the Democrats, whether doors or opened or not.
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perhaps my point was unclear: fdr sought to co-opt various 'progressive'
folks because he *had* to, indication of growing strength of left
(broadly
defined) at time, fdr's biggest fear (not too realistic imo) apparently
was that
lafollette might be able to bring together progressive/'left'
elements...
my conception of 30s left appears broader than yours, true that cp
membership
grew in later years of decade, also true that browder took party down
disastrous ('marxism as 20th century jeffersonianism' or some such
slogan) path, but don't think party was 'hegemonic'...
surely you know after all these years that i'm not proponent of working
with or
trying to move dems to left, of course, will rogers said that he wasn't
a member of any party, he was a dem, there's some truth in that, perhaps
leftists, en masse, should decide to take over local dem committees...
michael hoover
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