[Marxism] Popular Front

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Lause :
        
        In 1860, the socialists and radicals in the Republican Party did not
have a national organization with which they would have formulated a
national strategy, much less be able to implement one.

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CB: The Abolitionists were radicals in this era."We" were Abolitionists in
this period. See Herbert Aptheker's book _Abolitionism: a Revolutionary
Movement_. The Aboloitionists had  national organizations , like the
Underground Railroad,  and national strategy.

However, the point on this thread is not so much did the Communists/radicals
have a national organization in the 1860, but did they form an alliance
with, join with, whether joining the party  or otherwise, a _bourgeois_
party, as precedent for the Communists doing the same in the 1930's, 40's.
That's why I brought up the radicals in , around and through the Republican
Party in this period.

The notion that all examples in American history from the 1800's taught
Communists in the 1930's not to front with bourgeois parties is contradicted
by the radical-Republican front/alliance of the mid 1800's.



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