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2003-12-16 Fifth Column

Where have all the funders gone? CPUSA, passing

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Posted by B 2003-12-16 11:46:18 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 peshawar - and totally inaccurate at that

1. The CPUSA was never the only part on the left - there were trotskyites, Norman Thomas Socialists (some fiercely anti-communist), Henry Wallace Progressives who wandered in and out of the Dem party, not to mention anti-communist labor liberals - Truman-Humphrey-Jackson-Moynihan-Dubinksy-Meany-Kirkland-Rustin

2. Dems moving left - well in '92 they moved right - at most Dean is leading back - but thats being resisted (go, Joe, go!) and at most is likely to lead to a flameout in '04 and a return to the center in '08 (hillary, keep your hairdresser)

3. There are of course still parties to the left of the Dems aside from CPUSA, the most prominent being the Greens (see above thread) I wonder how many members of democratic underground actually voted Dem in '04, rather than for Nader.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-12-16 1:25:20 PM|| 2003-12-16 1:25:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I think that selling teddy bears and retro kitsch is a fitting end to the CPUSA. In fact, it would be funny if a gazillion million people hadn't died.

Posted by anon 2003-12-16 2:21:11 PM|| 2003-12-16 2:21:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd love to believe that Communism and Marxism are dead, but at the celebrations over Saddam in Baghdad on Sunday, I saw way too many men waving red flags with the hammer and sicle.
But your premise is sound: everyone knows that a world movement needs American dollars above all.
Libhawk, Hill lost the hairdresser when she was no longer Co-President and she won't need one now or in 2008.
She will be politically dead by next November tops.
What she needs is an orange jumpsuit.
And Hitlery, who wrote her Master's thesis on Marxism, is not a centrist.
She is the largest (both literally and figuratively) proponent of the Socialist Nanny Police State that the US had or has.

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-16 2:54:20 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2003-12-16 2:54:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 selling teddy bears and retro kitsch is a fitting end to the CPUSA

Now baby... that's cold.

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-16 6:38:28 PM|| 2003-12-16 6:38:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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