you got that right Charles...
Only reason for posting reference to Radosh article (from David Horowitz's on-line fish wrap) was lame attempt at provocation. RR's politics may have changed but his polemics have stayed same. His New Left incarnation called Bayard Rustin a "fascist toady" in mid-60s for proposing liberal- labor-civil rights coalition to bring change via conventional means (suites rather than streets). Of course, *that* Radosh wrote about links between labor and US anti-Soviet policies that he traced to Woodrow Wilson. And *that* Radosh wrote about State Dept/AID/CIA/AFL-CIO/AIFLD connections (organized labor too money from *and* participated in numerous covert operations with CIA).
While it is true that Rustin (who served prison time for draft refusal in WW2) wound up aligning himself with conservative wing of organized labor and essentially adopted Johnson administration line on Vietnam in pursuit of his controversial coalition proposal, he never, to best of my knowledge, felt need to atone for "sin" of communist past, nor to seek solace, as so many others have, in "duping" claims.
Since rebirthing as anti-communist, Radosh has, among other things, made up incidents in co-authored (with Joyce Milton) book about Rosenbergs, supported Nicaraguan contras, claimed that VENONA files prove Julius Rosenberg's guilt, asserted that Franco's victory in Spain was good thing (seems RR has gone soft on fascism given Mussolini/Hitler intervention on FF's behalf with military assistance), and had his Adelphi University position paid for by Olin Foundation (so much for dispassionate, intellectual objectivity). Michael Hoover