Modern John Brown: Herbert Aptheker

[Max Sawicky]

I cross-posted a bit on the Radosh/Aptheker flap to
a fellow I know -- a historian with impeccable
radical credentials and activist background, who shall
remain nameless.  Here's what he said:

"Max-- Both sides are wrong, in my opinion. Radosh has written some fine
books (including the Rosenberg expose) and does deserve a job teaching
history somewhere. But he's also taken up the cudgels of a neocon polemicist
(most recently damning the whole history profession for an interview in the
Journal of American History with Herbert Aptheker) and can't give up a mania
for proving that the CPUSA was a monstrous fraud from start to finish (which
is incomplete history at best). Let's move on... "

mbs


> Since rebirthing as anti-communist, Radosh has, among other things, made
> up incidents in co-authored (with Joyce Milton) book about Rosenbergs