>In Chapter six (of Klehr's "The Secret World of American Communism"), an NKVD document reports...<
do you trust Klehr? ------------------------ Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > -----Original Message----- > From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis > Proyect > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 12:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The Future of the Green Party > > > Michael Hoover wrote: > > By 1936, left congressional candidates were negligible > factor in wake of > > most left-leaning period of New Deal that secured FDR's re-election. > > Well, this is not quite accurate. Those candidates tended to > function as > the left wing of the New Deal. In other words, they had the same > relation to FDR that Donna Lamarche and David Cobb have to John Kerry. > In the late 1930s, we had the objective possibility for a > radical labor > party but that was destroyed by a CPUSA who used their hegemony to > squash efforts to the left of FDR. I believe that Michael challenged > this reference when I brought it up last time, but it still seems > entirely plausible to me: > > In Chapter six (of Klehr's "The Secret World of American > Communism"), an > NKVD document reports on communications between Earl Browder, the head > of the CPUSA, and Franklin Roosevelt. FDR congratulates > Browder and the > CPUSA for conducting its political line skillfully and helping US > military efforts. Roosevelt is "particularly pleased" with > the battle of > New Jersey Communists against a left-wing Labor Party formation there. > He was happy that the CPUSA had been able to unite various factions of > the Democratic Party against the left-wing electoral opposition and > render it ineffectual. > > Evidently Medea Benjamin and Ted Glick have studied Browder's > infighting > techniques. > > -- > > The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org >
