ex-Marxist apostates (was He's Got the Whole World In His Hands)

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Fri Oct 1 01:41:13 PDT 1999


In message <01bf0bcf$576d9b40$132250d8 at peterk.enteract.com>, Peter Kilander <peterk at enteract.com> writes


>I think Doug's on to something when he suggests that many are intelligent
>enough to recognize the class stuggle dimension of society, but sell-out
>pure and simple, like Mr. Alcaly. Did anyone read about the ex-Marxist
>who's George W. Bush's pointman on "compassionate conservativism"? He had
>joined the Communist Party in his youth and seems rather nutty - more or
>less fit the profile Carrol's describing and not too interested in
>economics.

It is reported here that the new Reagan biography says that the Gipper applied for Communist Party membership but was turned down on grounds of being to stupid. Anyone confirm?

-- Jim heartfield



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