Speaking of the SWP, there was an interesting review of Tim Weiner's history of the FBI in last Sunday's New York TIMES book review. One of the absurd things that the book found was that > Untold resources were wasted over decades surveilling the tiny Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, without turning up a trace of sedition. < I'd bet that the same can be said about the CPUSA.
However, my favorite part of the review is the following: > ... by the 1960s, the F.B.I. seemed just as lost combating domestic revolutionaries as it was battling foreign spies.... “Four or five” of the agents charged with infiltrating the antiwar movement “liked their new lives so much that they never came back.”< -- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac. Social science is in the middle.... and usually in a muddle. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
