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http://portside.org/2015-12-26/trumbo-and-hidden-story-red-scare A useful review with tons of facts, but politically way off: 1. TOTALLY lets Dems off the hook for having started the witch-hunt 2. TOTALLY errs in claiming the New Deal was the main target; the New Deal represented grudging concessions made to labor and other movements; the red-baiters intimidated the Dems in order to stop far more radical politics. (And unfortunately the CP itself mostly caved itself from the '30s on.) _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com