Carrol
If the USG doesn't give a flying fuck what the left thinks why did Zbig Brzezinski have his copies of Kapitalistate: Working Papers on the Capitalist State, the 70's neo-marxist journal of state theory sent to him at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. when he was Carter's NSC advisor? (Michael Kimmell told me that that.)
My copy of the the first US publication of Lenin translated by Louis Fraina aka L. Corey in 1918, that I bought at http://www.bolerium.com is stamped, "Property of the FBI Reading Room."
(For more on Corey see the Paul Buhle bio and the reprint of his mid-30's book, "The Decline of American Capitalism, " from Columbia Univ. Press. Paul Sorvino played him in , "Reds.")
If, the governement didn't wan't to use the talents and brains of lefties why did the OSS under Wild Bill Donovan ask VALB'er, "premature anti-fascist, " former YCL organizer, Milton Wolff, to join up? Herbert Marcuse (see the Barry Katz study, and the infamous headline in the PLP rag, "Challenge, " in 69, "Marcuse, Cop or Cop-Out?), Paul Sweezy, M. Halperin who later went to Cuba in the 60's? (See his three volumes on Castro and the Cuban Revolution from U.C. Press.) H. Stuart Hughes? Paul Baran? All OSS vets. Marcuse worked for the State Dept. until the mid-50's. Must have written his weakest book, "Soviet Marxism, " on Uncle Sam's time. Michael Pugliese P.S. On other sell-outs, Irving Howe relates in his autobiography running across another former Trotskyist in the corridors of Time magazine in the mid-50's and both saying, "What are you doing here?!" Howe, btw, at the time was growing disenchanted with the Leninist style of Max Shactman's Independent Socialist League, which was on the Attorney Generals list of proscribed orgs. Joe Rauh of the ADA defended the ISL at the hearings, as he later did Stalinoid Lillian Hellman. Joe's role at the '64 Democratic Convention was not so honourable in helping to stick it to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates though.