He is not as bad as David Horowitz?
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:29:41PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Does Ron Radosh have any redeeming characteristics, or is he just a
> low apologist for U.S. imperialism?
>
> Doug
"Commies, " has more than a bit of humor. Stories about Bob Dylan. "Radical Son, " is unrelentingly grimsville, esp. after the BPP/Betty van Patter sections. Horowitz autobiography just like Sidney Hook' has little of the personal touch. All ideology and polemic. One reviewer of the Hook said there wasn't even mention of his wife. Same could be said of Irving Howe autobiography. Of all the autobiographies I've read over the years of radicals and ex-radicals, the one's like, "A Radical Life, " by Vera Buch Weisbord (wife of one of the CPUSA organizers of the bloody Gastonia, NC. textile strike in 1929 or so, Albert http://www.weisbord.org/ This is the internet archives of Albert & Vera Weisbord, Leading Communist Radicals of the 1930's. Organizers of 1926 Passaic Textile Strike, 1929 Gastonia Textile Strike, leaders of the Communist League of Struggle 1931-37.) written by lesser known figures, are better at revealing the roots of radicalism. Another good read, also by a CPUSA figure, "A Life On the Left, " Al Richmond. In the Party till '73, as was Dorothy Healey, who wrote hers later. And, for the ultimate in funny there is Jessica Mitford, " A Life In The Party, " with its hilarious appendix satirizing Bolshevik speech. Taking off from U and Non-U Speech. Michael Pugliese