[Marxism] You Can Trust ‘Left Liberals’ to be Liberals First (and Left Last): A Reply to Chomsky & Friends’ Open Letter | Jack Rasmus

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A view I largely agree with and I find his weekly podcasts “Alternative 
Visions” worthwhile also:

https://jackrasmus.com/2020/01/27/you-can-trust-left-liberals-to-be-liberals-first-and-left-last-a-reply-to-chomsky-freinds-open-letter/


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[Marxism] US duty free owners give millions to Israeli settlements

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Comrades,

Sorry link to the article didn’t work. Here’s the AP story:

US duty free owners give millions to Israeli settlements
BY URI BLAU AND JOSEF FEDERMAN
Yesterday  [July 1, 2019]
JERUSALEM (AP) — When travelers shop at dozens of duty free shops at airports 
worldwide, they may be paying for more than a bottle of vodka or box of 
chocolates.

The Falic family of Florida, owners of the ubiquitous chain of Duty Free 
Americas shops, funds a generous and sometimes controversial philanthropic 
empire in Israel that runs through the corridors of power and stretches deep 
into the occupied West Bank.

An Associated Press investigation shows that the family has donated at least 
$5.6 million to settler organizations in the West Bank and east Jerusalem over 
the past decade, funding synagogues, schools and social services as well as 
far-right causes considered extreme even in Israel.

The Falics’ philanthropy is not limited to the settlements and they support 
many mainstream causes in the U.S. and Israel. However, they are a key example 
of how wealthy U.S. donors have bolstered the contentious settlement movement. 
Most of the world considers Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east 
Jerusalem to be obstacles to peace, but Israel considers the territories 
“disputed.”

The Falics support the ultranationalist Jewish community in Hebron, whose 
members include several prominent followers of a late rabbi banned from Israeli 
politics for his racist views, and whose movement is outlawed by the U.S. as a 
terrorist organization. They back Jewish groups that covertly buy up 
Palestinian properties in east Jerusalem, and they helped develop an 
unauthorized settlement outpost in the West Bank. The outpost was later 
retroactively legalized.

They have supported groups that are pushing for the establishment of a Third 
Temple for Jews at the holiest and most contested site in the Holy Land. They 
also have given more money than any other donor to Prime Minister Benjamin 
Netanyahu, a strong supporter of settlements, and have donated to other leaders 
of his Likud party.

In a response to AP questions through his lawyer, Simon Falic, who spoke on 
behalf of the family, said Jews should be able to live anywhere in the Holy 
Land, whether it’s Israel, Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem or the West Bank. He 
condemned violence and claimed none of the groups he supports do anything 
illegal under Israeli law.

“We are proud to support organizations that help promote Jewish life all over 
the Land of Israel,” said Falic, whose business is based in Miami, Florida. 
“The idea that the mere existence of Jewish life in any geographical area is an 
impediment to peace makes no sense to us.”

However, the international community overwhelmingly believes the settlements 
violate international law, which prohibits an occupying power from transferring 
its own population into the territory it occupies.

Since capturing the West Bank and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, the 
settler population has grown to about 700,000 people, roughly 10% of Israel’s 
Jewish population. In recent years, it has received a boost from Netanyahu’s 
pro-settler government and from a far more tolerant attitude by President 
Donald Trump, whose top Mideast advisers are longtime settlement supporters.

This growth has been fueled in part by fundraising arms for leading settlement 
groups in the United States. According to a past investigation of U.S. tax 
forms by the Israeli daily Haaretz, fundraising organizations in the U.S. 
raised more than $230 million for settlement causes between 2009 and 2013 alone.

“Far-right foreign donors are a pillar of the settlement enterprise,” said 
Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement watchdog group.

Other prominent settlement donors include casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, U.S. 
billionaire Ira Rennert, American financier Roger Hertog and the U.S. 
ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. Names of dozens of other lesser-known 
donors adorn buildings, playgrounds and even park benches throughout the West 
Bank.

But the Falics stand out for the wide scope of groups they support and their 
close ties with leading Israeli politicians. Critics say activities billed as 
harmless philanthropy have come at the expense of Palestinians.

Duty Free Americas is headed by three Falic brothers: Simon, Jerome and Leon. 
The chain operates over 180 stores at airports and border crossings in the U.S. 
and Latin America. Leon Falic told the trade publication TRBusiness that the 
privately held company last year posted over $1.65 billion in sales.

The family has two main charitable organizations, the U.S.-based 

[Marxism] AP News: US duty free owners give millions to Israeli settlements

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US duty free owners give millions to Israeli settlements

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — When travelers shop at dozens of duty free stores at 
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[Marxism] Trotsky Conference set for Havana 2019

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This is a big development:

https://walterlippmann.com/trotsky-conference-set-for-havana-2019/

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[Marxism] Financial Times: Peking University threatens to close down Marxism society

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I saw this article via URPE mail. Sorry if it’s been posted here already.

Financial Times,
Peking University threatens to close down Marxism society

https://www.ft.com/content/ccab09aa-bdc2-11e8-8274-55b72926558f

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[Marxism] Atlantic mag says socialist rev is far-fetched

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In this video that examines the term "late capitalism" in the spirit of the 
happily late William Safire, the narrator declares the possibility of a 
socialist revolution as being far-fetched. No doubt The Atlantic will continue 
to publish and support every measure to attempt to prevent one.

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/535272/what-does-late-capitalism-really-mean/

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[Marxism] Google and WSWS

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I probably deserve to be howled off this list for these questions but I
admit to have been living under a rock so here goes (sorry if these topics
have already been addressed - just point me to the posts):

1.  If a discussion can be had without a long polemic about David North,
what do people here think about Google directing people away from
left-leaning sites as described in this open letter to Google from North:
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/25/pers-a25.html

2.  Is there a weekly summary of the left press, internet posts and left
journal articles available online?

3.  What's the low-down on North? In brief, please. I really don't know and
haven't asked any comrades to spend time explaining this to me before. If
this is too contentious for this mail list, just send me some links to
articles you think I should read.

4.  What's with the robotic, monotone newscasts and funereal music on the
WSWS podcasts?

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[Marxism] Uno School of Japanese Marxism

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A new edition of The Uno Newsletter: Rejuvenating Marxian Economics through Uno 
Theory (Vol. II, No. 19) 20 March 2017 is available in English at: 
http://www.unotheory.org/en/news_II_19

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[Marxism] State of Revolutionary Movements and Marxism in South Africa

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For those of you who do not follow the Black Agenda Report website (
http://blackagendareport.com), I thought this article on South Africa would
be of interest:

http://blackagendareport.com/state_of_revolution_in_south_africa

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[Marxism] Vijay Prashad on the ongoing fight against the legacy of colonialism

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http://www.alternet.org/world/lingering-impacts-colonialism

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[Marxism] Mexico

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Comrades,

Suggestions requested for socialist analysis of present day Mexico, Mexican 
politics and Mexican left. Unfortunately, English language only. Visiting 
Mexico City in late October. Muchos gracias.

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[Marxism] Viva la Causa - Theater for the People

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Complete text from online version follows due to pay wall; photos and video
omitted.
San Francisco Chronicle, July 5, 2016, front page of print edition.


At 50, El Teatro Campesino still speaks up for la Causa


By Lily Janiak

July 4, 2016 Updated: July 4, 2016 9:30pm


In San Juan Bautista, a town 37 miles northeast of Monterey, chickens still
roam downtown streets, and the air is thick with the scents of cabbage and
berry crops this time of year. The San Benito County town is most famous
for its Spanish mission, the only California mission to have never
interrupted its weekly Masses and the one that spelled doom for James
Stewart and Kim Novak in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.”


But if San Juan Bautista is best known as an iconic movie set, it’s also
home to the first major Chicano theater in the country: el Teatro Campesino
— Farmworkers Theater — which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary.


ETC’s venue suits its town and its name. A former vegetable warehouse, the
theater’s administrative office still has a walk-in freezer, which, though
no longer active, offers the building’s only cool respite in the heat of
summer.


ETC’s main audience demographic is one that’s vastly underrepresented at
most Bay Area theaters: working- and middle-class Latino families. Parents
and children eat dinner together on the theater’s wide porch before shows,
and no one shushes the littlest ones as they make comments and ask
questions during a performance.


No one shushes the company’s emerging young artists either. Producing
Artistic Director Kinan Valdez, son of ETC founder Luis Valdez, has even
given Christy Sandoval and Emily Morales, two young artists at the theater,
the reins to direct and produce ETC’s anniversary show, “Viva la Causa.”


For them, ETC is an artistic oasis. “I hear the complaints in regional
American theater now,” Sandoval said. “There aren’t Chicanos being
represented on stage. It’s a nationwide thing. I’m fortunate. Why would we
ever leave this place? Every show we do here is entrenched in a beautiful,
rich culture. ... Every single piece has a lesson or message.”


On the picket lines


That artistic purpose dates back to the company’s origins. Founded in 1965
during the Delano grape strike, ETC helped organize the Central Valley’s
grape pickers into the United Farm Workers union. Under the leadership of
Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta and Larry Itliong, the UFW fought for higher
wages and better working conditions for farmworkers in California and
eventually nationwide.


ETC performed on the strike’s picket lines and in the flatbeds of trucks in
farm fields. Its theatrical form was the *acto*, an agitprop sketch with
multiple goals: to chronicle and validate the farmworkers’ plight at a time
when no one else did; to ridicule the opposition (farm bosses were
typically costumed in pig snouts) to make it more approachable; and to
suggest solutions — boycotting, striking — aimed at inspiring audiences to
social action.


In devising the new show, Morales, Sandoval and six other contributing
writers knew they wanted to create a retrospective that honored that
history, embodied in the show’s title — “Viva la Causa” refers to the
campaign to unionize Mexican American farmworkers and invokes the Chicano
movement as a whole. They knew they wanted to make the production
immersive, inviting audience members to explore different rooms in their
facility for the first time. And they knew it should be a series of short
plays, one for each of ETC’s traditional forms: *mito* (myth), *corrido*
(Mexican folk ballad) and *historia* (history), as well as the *acto*.


But it wasn’t until weeks before last weekend’s opening that Sandoval and
Morales realized they needed to settle on just what *la Causa* means for
the company, both today and in the future.

“We realized, unfortunately, it’s still the same,” Sandoval said. “It’s
still searching for self-determination of Chicanos and Chicanas in the
United States. It’s still fighting for our culture to be recognized and
represented. The cause is not over.”


Ethnic theaters


With that decision, ETC stands out among ethnic-specific theaters in the
region. Although many such groups are going strong in the Bay Area, such as
African-American Shakespeare Company, and newer ones like Ferocious Lotus
Theatre Company are already wielding sizable influence, others are in
tenuous positions, or gone. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has not been
producing regularly since it lost two venues and its two founders died.
Traveling Jewish Theatre and Asian American Theater Company both closed
their doors in 2011.


Often when these companies close, it’s not for only 

[Marxism] Socialist Visions - podcast

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Check out this Podcast: 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/socialist-visions/id1027532314?mt=2

I believe this originates from California.




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[Marxism] Fidel Castro Letter to Barack Obama, full text

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[Source:  http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2016-03-28/brother-obama  Downloaded 28
March 2016, 8:35 PDT]
Brother Obama

We don’t need the empire to give us anything. Our efforts will be legal and
peaceful, because our commitment is to peace and fraternity among all human
beings who live on this planet.

Author: Fidel Castro Ruz  |
inter...@granma.cu

march 28, 2016 12:03:14

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose
footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching
for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of
exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places
around the country.

Tourism today, in large part, consists of viewing the delights of our
landscapes and tasting exquisite delicacies from our seas, and is always
shared with the private capital of large foreign corporations, whose
earnings, if they don’t reach billions of dollars, are not worthy of any
attention whatsoever.

Since I find myself obliged to mention the issue, I must add - principally
for the youth - that few people are aware of the importance of such a
condition, in this singular moment of human history. I would not say that
time has been lost, but I do not hesitate to affirm that we are not
adequately informed, not you, nor us, of the knowledge and conscience that
we must have to confront the realities which challenge us. The first to be
taken into consideration is that our lives are but a fraction of a
historical second, which must also be devoted in part to the vital
necessities of every human being. One of the characteristics of this
condition is the tendency to overvalue its role, in contrast, on the other
hand, with the extraordinary number of persons who embody the loftiest
dreams.

Nevertheless, no one is good or bad entirely on their own. None of us is
designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although
Cubans had the privilege of José Martí’s example. I even ask myself if he
needed to die or not in Dos Ríos, when he said, “For me, it’s time,” and
charged the Spanish forces entrenched in a solid line of firepower. He did
not want to return to the United States, and there was no one who could
make him. Someone ripped some pages from his diary. Who bears this
treacherous responsibility, undoubtedly the work of an unscrupulous
conspirator? Differences between the leaders were well known, but never
indiscipline. “Whoever attempts to appropriate Cuba will reap only the dust
of its soil drenched in blood, if he does not perish in the struggle,”
stated the glorious Black leader Antonio Maceo. Máximo Gómez is likewise
recognized as the most disciplined and discreet military chief in our
history.

Looking at it from another angle, how can we not admire the indignation of
Bonifacio Byrne when, from a distant boat returning him to Cuba, he saw
another flag alongside that of the single star and declared, “My flag is
that which has never been mercenary...” immediately adding one of the most
beautiful phrases I have ever heard, “If it is torn to shreds, it will be
my flag one day… our dead raising their arms will still be able to defend
it!” Nor will I forget the blistering words of Camilo Cienfuegos that
night, when, just some tens of meters away, bazookas and machine guns of
U.S. origin in the hands of counterrevolutionaries were pointed toward that
terrace on which we stood.

Obama was born in August of 1961, as he himself explained. More than half a
century has transpired since that time.

Let us see, however, how our illustrious guest thinks today:

“I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.
I have come here to extend the hand of friendship to the Cuban people,”
followed by a deluge of concepts entirely novel for the majority of us:

“We both live in a new world, colonized by Europeans,” the U.S. President
continued, “Cuba, like the United States, was built in part by slaves
brought here from Africa. Like the United States, the Cuban people can
trace their heritage to both slaves and slave-owners.”

The native populations don’t exist at all in Obama’s mind. Nor does he say
that the Revolution swept away racial discrimination, or that pensions and
salaries for all Cubans were decreed by it before Mr. Barrack Obama was 10
years old. The hateful, racist bourgeois custom of hiring strongmen to
expel Black citizens from recreational centers was swept away by the Cuban
Revolution - that which would go down in history for the battle against
apartheid that liberated Angola, putting an end to the presence of nuclear
weapons on a continent of more than a 

[Marxism] Richard Aoki - FBI informant in Black Panther Party

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More documents about former Black Panther leader Richard Aoki have been 
released by the FBI under a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_28277394/new-fbi-files-show-wide-range-black-panther

As a former friend (and perhaps a reported subject) of the late Aoki, I do 
not think these documents are FBI fabrications as some of his other and closer 
friends will be claiming. Perhaps they do not know about Roman Malinovsky? It 
is important to study police practices if we are serious about studying history 
and building a movement.

In Solidarity,
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Bay Area, California

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  Rouse yourselves because we will need all your enthusiasm.
  Organize yourselves because we will need all your strength. Slogan of 
L'Ordine Nuovo (The New Order) newspaper, 1919, Antonio Gramsci, managing 
editor.



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[Marxism] Abraham Lincoln Brigade - last surviving member

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New York Times Magazine article to appear Sunday

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5272545e4a26588ff9c1a929bid=83ae69a303e=fffb189df4

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[Marxism] Podemos economic program

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I am looking for an English translation of the 68 page economic program written 
by two economic professors and published by Podemos in November 2014 entitled 
Un Proyecto Economico para la Gente (An Economic Project for the People).

Without a complete translation, how can we intelligently analyze Podemos?

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[Marxism] SYRIZA Varoufakis Confessions of an Erratic Marxist (2014) | Portside

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http://portside.org/2015-02-07/confessions-erratic-marxist-midst-repugnant-european-crisis


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[Marxism] SYRIZA Variufakis Confessions of an Erratic Marxist (2013)

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Correction to the subject heading: The date of the blog article by Yanis 
Varoufakis is December 2013 NOT 2014. 

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[Marxism] Spanish Civil War and British artists

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A British art show review in The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, December
18, 2014, page D7

http://www.wsj.com/articles/spanish-war-british-response-1418861102

Hope you will find this info useful.

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[Marxism] Why we're changing nothing

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An October 23, 2014 review of Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything in the 
London Review of Books:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n20/paul-kingsnorth/the-four-degrees

Spoiler - Concluding sentences:

Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for his work on the psychology of human 
decision-making, which may be why he’s so gloomy. ‘This is not what you might 
want to hear,’ he says, but ‘no amount of psychological awareness will overcome 
people’s reluctance to lower their standard of living. So that’s my bottom 
line: there is not much hope. I’m thoroughly pessimistic. I’m sorry.’

In other words, the truth doesn't set us free.

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[Marxism] Hollywood Blacklist - NYT Aug 7 article

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I was waiting for Louis, the movement's film critic, to post this but I
didn't see it. Although the political viewpoint is rightist and leaves out
important background, it has some information that I found useful.  I wish
I was in NYC to see the films.  UC Berzerkley has useful bibliographic info
on the topic at http://lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html.  I read on
Portside that Norma Barzman (The Red and the Blacklist, autobiography) at
93 is still fighting the good fight and kicked off a UCLA film festival in
July -
https://portside.org/2014-08-01/blacklisted-writer-norma-barzman-kicks-ucla-film-series
If my post is too long for this list, please let me know so I don't make
this mistake again.
Red Arnie
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*Movies *

*Screen Voices, Banished but Not Silenced*

*The Blacklist, at Lincoln Center and Anthology Film Archives*

By J. HOBERMAN AUG. 7, 2014


-Picture omitted. The screenwriters Dalton Trumbo, left, and John Howard
Lawson, hoisted aloft by supporters in June 1950, before serving time for
contempt of Congress. Credit Marty Lederhandler/Associated Press-


The close-up, the big screen, the eternal klieg light of unending media
coverage: Motion pictures, especially those made in Hollywood, are a
technology of magnification. How else to explain that the tale of the 300
or so movie studio employees whose political associations cost them their
jobs has come to dramatize the repressive hysteria of the McCarthy era?


A real-life film noir featuring danger, betrayal, selflessness and close
encounters with movie stars, the Hollywood blacklist is a juicy narrative
and remains an enduring object of fascination. New scholarly histories roll
off academic presses, most recently “Hollywood Exiles in Europe
http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/Hollywood-Exiles-in-Europe,5055.aspx”
by Rebecca Prime and “Film Criticism, the Cold War and the Blacklist
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520280670” by Jeff Smith, with
more on the way. This month, Anthology Film Archives and Cineaste magazine
will initiate an ambitious three-part series, “Screenwriters and the
Blacklist http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/42990:
Before, During and After.” And on Friday, the Film Society of Lincoln Center
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/film_society_of_lincoln_center/index.html?inline=nyt-org
revives “Red Hollywood,”
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/294302/Red-Hollywood-Movie-/overview the
influential 1996 documentary by Thom Andersen and Noël Burch, giving it
context with screenings of eight features chosen by Mr. Andersen that were
directed or written by blacklisted artists.


-Picture omitted. Dean Stockwell in “Boy With Green Hair” (1948), directed
by Joseph Losey, who was later blacklisted. Credit RKO/Photofest-


“A policy of nonemployment for known Communists,” as it was characterized
by The New York Times when it was implemented in November 1947, following
the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings on Communist
influence in the movie industry, began with the contractual termination of
the “unfriendly witnesses” — eight writers, one director and one producer —
known as the Hollywood 10. Political theater of the highest order, the
hearings directly involved and furthered the careers of two future
presidents, Richard M. Nixon
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/nixon-early/
and Ronald Reagan
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-08-26/news/8502250710_1_fbi-informant-hollywood-independent-citizens-committee-fbi-agent,
even as nonemployment accelerated in Hollywood with additional committee
hearings in the early 1950s.


Blacklisting had a pronounced effect on movie content and was not
restricted to Communists. Progressives like Charlie Chaplin and Orson
Welles were effectively driven out of the country. Although the ban ended
in 1960 when the credit for Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood 10, flashed
on the screen in two liberal-minded superproductions, “Exodus”
http://movies.nytimes.com/gst/movies/titlelist.html?v_idlist=16326;302624;416531;448939inline=nyt_ttl
and “Spartacus,”
http://movies.nytimes.com/gst/movies/titlelist.html?v_idlist=45948;306481inline=nyt_ttl
some on the blacklist would not work in Hollywood for another decade or
more, and others would never return.


Conventional wisdom has it that they were a marginal and mediocre lot.
“Only two had talent,” Billy Wilder claimed of the 10. “The rest were just
unfriendly.”

The Anthology series, which features a number of credible movies written by
members of the 10, means to dispel that assertion as well as another that
is directly addressed by “Red Hollywood
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/red-hollywood”: the argument
advanced, for 

[Marxism] Cointelpro never ended

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Cointelpro started long before it was labeled with the acronym and will never 
end until (if you want to believe it is possible) a utopian communist society 
with no class antagonism can be achieved.  We should expose and oppose 
infiltration, subversion, provocation, informing, etc., but thinking that 
opposition will force the government to end these counter-revolutionary 
practices is delusional and hampers the building of a well-disciplined left 
movement.

In Solidarity,
Red Arnie

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