Re: The Future of the Green Party

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

>In Chapter six (of Klehr's "The Secret World of American Communism"), an
NKVD document reports...<

do you trust Klehr? 

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine




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> 
> Michael Hoover wrote:
> > By 1936, left congressional candidates were negligible 
> factor in wake of
> > most left-leaning period of New Deal that secured FDR's re-election.
> 
> Well, this is not quite accurate. Those candidates tended to 
> function as
> the left wing of the New Deal. In other words, they had the same
> relation to FDR that Donna Lamarche and David Cobb have to John Kerry.
> In the late 1930s, we had the objective possibility for a 
> radical labor
> party but that was destroyed by a CPUSA who used their hegemony to
> squash efforts to the left of FDR. I believe that Michael challenged
> this reference when I brought it up last time, but it still seems
> entirely plausible to me:
> 
> In Chapter six (of Klehr's "The Secret World of American 
> Communism"), an
> NKVD document reports on communications between Earl Browder, the head
> of the CPUSA, and Franklin Roosevelt. FDR congratulates 
> Browder and the
> CPUSA for conducting its political line skillfully and helping US
> military efforts. Roosevelt is "particularly pleased" with 
> the battle of
> New Jersey Communists against a left-wing Labor Party formation there.
> He was happy that the CPUSA had been able to unite various factions of
> the Democratic Party against the left-wing electoral opposition and
> render it ineffectual.
> 
> Evidently Medea Benjamin and Ted Glick have studied Browder's 
> infighting
> techniques.
> 
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