They call it socialism, but it's leftwing militarism
In Boulder, Colorado
These guys (folks like Carl Gershman and Penn Kemble) later emerged, via Social Democrats USA, as Ronald Reagan's international hatchet men.
The Third Camp was the CIA's preferred propaganda vehicle during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. One front was the Geneva-based International Union of Socialist Youth, headed by Bakery and Confectioners Union honcho Dan Gallin. Under the pseudonym Andre Giacometti, Gallin wrote an SP pamphlet on Algeria that promoted Messali Hadj's nationalist MNA against the more revolutionary and Marxist FLN. Another CIA stooge was Tom Mboya, leader of Kenya's trade unions. Both taught seminars at a YPSL summer school I attended, I think in 1960, which I found quite distressing at the time for their astonishing absense of political passion, although the CIA ties weren't revealed until long afterward.
The demise of the Third Camp had begun with Dwight Macdonald's 1950s essay, "I Choose the West," but at least he had the grace to make his choice public. When Michael Shute endorsed NATO as the protector of "Free Berlin" in 1961, and when Max Shachtman endorsed the Bay of Pigs invasion, they were still wearing Third Camp uniforms. This was also the time that Sam Farber entered the fray, with his article "Yanqui No! Castro No! Cuba Si!" published under the byline Sergio Junco in Tony Cliff's journal International Socialism. Whether or not these guys were aware of the CIA's helping hand I don't know.
However, a cautionary footnote is in order: Even the great Frantz Fanon was an admirer of Holden Roberto's FNLA in Angola, the CIA's original instrument in Portuguese Africa. Fanon wasn't basing his choice on anti-Stalinism, but on the FNLA's commitment first and foremost to violent armed struggle, in contrast to the MPLA's political organizing strategy.
Ken Lawrence