How is it "sectarian" to be implacably hostile to the Stalinist counter-revolution and its apparatchiks?
Aug 17 2007 04:48
Aug 17 2007 06:23
max, you sound a lot like the guy who saved the mission district in SF from gentrification.
Aug 18 2007 00:05
Actually, I was excessive regarding syndicalistcat -- I owe you an apology for how I said that earlier thing. Sorry.
Aug 18 2007 01:32
syndicalistcat wrote:
...But you can't resist adding personal insults, eh? You're not worth having a conversation with. bye.
I certainly wouldn't waste my time and energy arguing with the likes of him.
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John Rossen was in the Lincoln Brigade and was later sent by the Americans to India where he was the liason with the Communist Party. He was a radio agitator after the war until he ran afoul of the McCarthyites. He wound up owning three Spanish language movie houses and a sizeable office building in Chicago, and became the landlord for SDS and the Chicago Area Women's Liberation Union. He was dismayed when a letter to his Lincoln Brigade comrades urging them to join in antiwar activity resulted in checks but little involvement.
The staff at his theaters were all young Wobblies and they launched a strike. The Tribune loved it: Wobblies striking against their Communist boss, whom the paper depicted as an owner of "porno theaters." Actually, he ran Cantinflas movies. He caved quickly and proudly claimed that he had given the Wobblies their first organizing victory since 1920.