Also, a core illusion of several generations of, 'progressives, " aka Old Left Communists. See, New Left Review, issue #100, if memory serves, 1980, Marxism and the British Historians, Part One, " by the late Rapheal Samuel.And what about all those diamat textbooks Charles loves by George Politzer, Maurice Corforth???
Also, "The True and Only Heaven, " by the late Christopher Lasch. Esp. the moving opening where he narrates his own ideological journy from growing up in a Popular Front Progressive family/mileau, through the New Left teach-ins, mastering Frankfurt School texts and Freud, and into the late 70's a growing, what I'll call a resigned Christian left conservatism during the Reaganite era. Michael Pugliese