Henry C.K. Liu
Apsken at aol.com wrote:
> Brad DeLong wrote,
>
> "And then there was the period between August 23, 1939 and June 22, 1941...
> Which one of the Hollywood Ten was it who wrote _Johnny Got His Gun_ as part
> of a campaign organized from Moscow Center to try to keep the U.S. from aiding
> Britain against Hitler?"
>
> That specific libel is refuted in this week's issue of The Nation, which
> reprinted Dalton Trumbo's private correspondence with Murray Kempton. In fact,
> Brad's contemptible use of "Moscow Center" is even more odious than the Cold
> War liberals' false accusation, pandering as it does to the anticommunist
> group libel that has run uninterruptedly from the A. Mitchell Palmer era
> through the likes of George Will.
>
> Communists who opposed both the Third Period and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
> from within, such as Georg Lukacs (author of the premature-PopFront "Blum
> Theses"), defended their affiliation by stating that only the Communists
> provided effective opposition to fascism at that time, and that those Marxists
> who sought to do so outside, such as Karl Korsch, were marginalized in that
> respect. Even Leon Trotsky, who opposed both of these maneuvers from the
> outside, warned his followers not to accuse Stalinists of capitulation (he
> even proposed that the SWP endorse CP candidate Earl Browder for president in
> 1940), viewing both as mistaken tactical maneuvers in the run-up to the
> inevitable collision with fascism, to which the Stalinists above all were
> committed, Trotsky said. I'm eager to learn which of Brad's anticommunist
> heroes distinguished her/himself as an effective antifascist fighter in the
> 1930s.
>
> Ken Lawrence