>As bad as that is, and as deserving of criticism as it is, it does not
>begin to compare with what happened under Communist regimes, much less
>under fascism. There is a need for perspective here. Stalinist USSR and
>Stalinist satellite regimes in Eastern Europe were marked by anti-Semitic
>purges, and such treatment of national minorities as epitomized by the
>deaths of millions of Ukrainians. Maoist China has not a much better record
>with respect to the treatment of Chinese national minorities; Tibet is only
>the tip of the iceberg. And so on. I assume we need no recitation of the
>racism of fascism.
>
>Against such a background, the racism of the socialists and social
>democratic movements pales.
But the CPUSA, despite the many stains on its history, was about the only predominantly white organization that gave a damn about race and racism in the 1930s, no?
Doug