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I think there is little dispute that the CP, after years of factional destruction, was down to 7000 or so members. What I disputed was the Wiki entry that quotes "60,000" members at its founding, which I found astounding. But then the number did have to come *down* from some higher number. Tim Davenport, who runs the Early American Marxism archive and is quite authority on this, participates in writing and correcting much of the documented facts about US Marxism and socialism on Wiki. He has the documents and, he has much of this on the archive. So my only issue is with this seemingly very large number in 1919. Another issue is of course is the 1934-1936 period of CP growth which is interesting to chart, if the numbers are available, based on the rise of the level of the class struggle at this time. David ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
