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Yes, but some basic source criticism is in order.... James P. Cannon was a primary informant for Draper, and I think Cannon had no reason to fudge the numbers, at least not after he was out of the picture. But why are these Comintern figures reliable? What I mean is where would they have been getting the numbers from, if not the American CP. As to Browder's claim that 1/7 of his party in 1927 had been around from the beginning, how would he know that? And what, in the end, did membership mean? I suspect it varied from time to time and, maybe, from place to place. Solidarity! Mark L. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
