Re: Lenin in US History. . .

["Sol Dollinger" <soldoll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is little that you can trust in Otanelli's book, The Communist Party
and the USA published in 1991 by Rutgers University press.  Lenin died years
before the third period came to an end and the transition to the popular
front was made. In 1936 the CP put up Browder for president but the CP was
torn between their desire to support Roosevelt and the pressure from the
ranks of auto workers who wanted to run candidates for office on Labor's Non
Partisan Leagues.  In Detroit this was expressed by the UAW running Walter
Reuther and Richard Frankensteen for the city council in 1938.  As late as
1945 the UAW supported Frankensteen for mayor in the most vicious racist
campains that the city had ever seen.

Otanelli goes out of his way to elevate Dorothy Kraus as the leader of the
Flint Women's Auxiliary when the whole world knew that the organizer and
leader was Genora Johnson (see http://home.inreach.com/soldoll/  Janice
Hassett Never Again Just a Women.)
-----Original Message-----
From: James N. Stewart <jnstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, March 10, 2000 7:23 PM
Subject: Lenin in US History. . .


>I was reading in Ottanelli's book about the CPUSA that they originally
>adopted the popular front approach  and supported other party candidates
>because they were advised to do so by Lenin.  This makes two instances in
>which Lenin was involved more or less directly in US History, the other
>being the time that Gompers wrote to lenin asking advice on, if I recall
>correctly, the founding of a labor party in the US, but he received no
reply
>and so sent the union movement in other directions.   Are there any other
>examples of Lenin's involvement in such matters?
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