Re: CP stuff

["Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Old story.  Details could be wrong:

U.S. Immigration Officer:  "Do you advocate the overthrow of the U.S.
Government by force or violence?"

Louis Adamic (radical Yugoslav immigrant in 1918):  "By force?"


mbs

-----Original Message-----

>
> This is a funny, but persistent misrepresentation. The CPUSA opposed
> the violent overthrow (or any sort of overthrow, right?) of the US
> government and did so throughout the McCarthy period -- something our
> vaunted Trotskyists (before WWII in the particular case to which you
> refer) did
not.