I'm tired of this defensiveness. On Feb 7, 2008 1:16 PM, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Jim Devine > > Charles: > > Did you do a poll of the members or did you get this info from the > > FBI ? Most party members are not public because there is not freedom > of > > political association for Communists in the US. > > no, I didn't do a poll. But that was the "word on the street" and my > friends in the CP didn't deny it. > > ^^^^^ > CB: "word on the street" from anti-CPers ? My friends in the CP did > deny it. > > ^^^ > > Me: > > and the USSR, its patron, supported Nixon. > > > > and Nixon was an ally of J. Edgar Hoover, who was busy denying freedom > of > political association to the CP. Yes, Hoover shuffled off to that big > dress shop in the sky that year, but his "truth" went marching on... > > ^^^^^ > CB: Wow. That's a stretch, but such stretches are not uncommon in the > mental gymnastics of anti-Communism and anti-Sovietism. > > So, the Soviet Union was not the "patron" of the CPUSA ? > > (Michael will step in now, because straightening out old anti-Soviet > thinking is too pro-Soviet. One wonders why since the SU is a ghost. > What to fear from discussing the defunct SU ?) >
-- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
