Max: >As often we have taken a detour, this time into the Smith Act. >Bottom line is, did the SWP encourage workers to serve in the >armed forces to fight the Axis, or not? If not, as I've said >before, that was a honorable position but debatable, especially >with the benefit of hindsight. Of course they did. SWPer Jimmy Kutscher had his legs blown off during a German torpedo attack on ship. When he was in a housing project in Newark, the government tried to evict him in the 1950s because he was a "subversive". Fred Halstead, who was a leader of the Vietnam antiwar movement, was a young sailor stationed in the Far East in 1945 when he discovered that Washington wanted to deploy US troops against Mao. He joined with many leftwing soldiers, some of whom had CIO organizing experience, in the powerful "bring us home" movement. >Then we get an apologia for Japanese militarism/imperialism, >which I submit was *worse* than the U.S., tho the comparison of >the US-UK with the Nazis is much more stark: Yawn. Submit all you want. Wake me up when you have some historical facts. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
