Charles the tankie supporting the Soviet interventions in Hungary '56 and Czechoslakia again! Shane Mage, in The American Socialist in '57, ripped apart one of your sources (I presume), "The Truth About Hungary, " by Herbert Aptheker, 1957, (Carl) Marzani & Munsell.
"Tankie, " = Anti-Stalinist communist slang for supporters of Soviet intervention in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Used in Eurocommunist journals like, "Marxism Today, " the journal of the CPGB.Other refs see, "The Left In Britain, 1956-1968, " edited by Peter Widgery of the UK SwP, Penguib Books.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=Peter+Fryer+Hungary+&hl=en Hungary ... large. Still a classic is Peter Fryer's Hungarian Tragedy, second edition, London ... no 2, and Andy Anderson, Hungary '56, Solidarity, 1964, both accounts ... www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/backiss/Vol3/No1/Varga.html
More Biographies ... Fryer, Peter Correspondent for British CP's newpaper in Hungary; an eye-witness to the Uprising he reurned to Britain to urge support for the Revolution ... http://www.home.mira.net/~andy/bs/morebios.htm
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http://www.google.com/search?q=Aptheker+Truth+About+Hungary+ ICL Decrees: No More Reiss Factions ... Shane (brother of John, M.P.) Mage, wrote a 1957 article on “‘Truth’ and Hungary – A Reply to Herbert Aptheker” (the theoretical hack of the American CP), quoting ... www.internationalist.org/reissfactions0301.html Shane Mage, later a leader of the Revolutionary Tendency of the SWP which was the forerunner of the Spartacist League, wrote a 1957 article on “‘Truth ’ and Hungary – A Reply to Herbert Aptheker” (the theoretical hack of the American CP), quoting an interview with Maléter:
“The National Guard, the revolutionary committees and the workers councils are solidly in the hands of freedom fighters who are fighting on two fronts: against the Stalinists and against the reactionaries.” –reprinted in the Young Socialist pamphlet, The Hungarian Revolution (1959)
(Jan Norden ex of the Sparts org.)
(The Mage article was in the journal of the Cochranites, The American
Socialist, of which Harry Braverman was an editor.)
www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/radosh/2000/rr10-04-00.htm
>...First, as Aptheker and his admirers admit, his Communist politics are
inseparable from his performance as a historian. He has written history in
order to provide fuel for an impossible Communist future. Carefully removed
from his resume, as it appears in the tributes, are the scores of his
historical articles, books and pamphlets in which Aptheker uses his
credibility as a Ph.D., and historian, to produce the worst kind of
Stalinist claptrap and distortion. First and foremost is his notorious 1956
book, The Truth About Hungary. Written soon after the Soviet invasion of
Hungary, and meant to stop the growing disillusionment and despair in
Western Communist ranks, its scholarly veneer was used to depict the
Hungarian people’s rebellion as a CIA coup against the socialist regime
instigated by ex-fascists and monarchists who wanted to restore a fascist
regime in Hungary. As British Communists read the shocking dispatches from
their own Daily Worker correspondent Peter Freyer, whose coverage of the
event reflected the reality of the rebellion as an authentic uprising of the
working class and population as a whole against the Soviet-sponsored regime,
Aptheker used his stature as the Party’s leading intellectual to write a
crude piece of Moscow-inspired propaganda to justify the invasion. Many
years ago, I asked Aptheker about this travesty of a book. He answered
proudly: “I had a job to do for the Communist movement, and I did it.”
Lonely Planet World Guide | Destination Hungary | Further ... ... dry but definitive treatise on Hungarian foreign policy from 1944-86, or Sándor Kopácsi's In the Name of the Working Class, a thoroughly readable account of ... www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/europe/hungary/read.htm
Re: Re: Czech issues. ... gsehd.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/CWIHP/BULLETINS/b2a4.htm Mlynar was on the CC of the Czech ... to maintain domination over their respective populations. Michael Pugliese ... http://www.csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/2001II/msg00856.html
LBO-Talk April 2001: RE: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4166 ... nomenklatura like Wolfgang Leonhard, Zdenek Mlynar (roomate of Gorby in the 50's ... stocks where we belong!) Michael Pugliese, Lumpen Bourgeois http://www.marxmail ... nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0104/0286.html
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