From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> Subject: Ronald Radosh :The Strange Case of Comrade Aptheker,
Laureate of Stalinism.
Ronald Radosh: The Strange Case of Comrade Aptheker: Laureate of Stalinism Put this next to the Science & Society, from the late 50's, hit piece by Eugene Genovese reprinted in his, "In Red and Black." Was a review of the dreadful book from Marzani & Munsell on the Hungarian Revolution of '56. All that crap about fascist counterrevolutionaries. Sound familiar?
To say a word in Aptheker's defense, at least he joined CofC after the 1991 CPUSA convention debacle. And he helped to raise a fine daughter who teaches a very popular "Intro to Feminism" class at UCSC.
Michael Pugliese
http://frontpagemag.com/archives/radosh/2000/rr10-04-00.htm
Herbert Aptheker The Strange Case of Comrade Aptheker: Laureate of Stalinism FrontPageMagazine.com | October 4, 2000
IT HAS BEEN a good fifteen years since Theodore Draper, took up the cudgels against what he called the new "minor academic industry" devoted to the rehabilitation of American Communism. Writing in the pages of The New York Review of Books, Draper pointed out that New Left activists who had stayed in the university to become historians were the captains of that industry. Although they were part of a movement that often showed contempt for its Old Left parents, as they matured and entered academia, they adopted a new stance (perhaps one of overcompensation) in which they celebrated their parents' politics by showering the history of their movement with uncritical praise. Seeking a "usable tradition" to resurrect their own waning struggle, they found one in the record of American Communism in its Stalinist heyday.
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