[lbo-talk] Jihad vs. the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

[BrownBingb at aol.com]

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> One Abraham Lincoln Brigade vet here says near as they can tell about 60% of 
> the U.S. volunteers were members of the CPUSA.  The International Brigades 
> as a whole, of course, came from all over, including Latin America and 
> Europe, and included a lot of people who had dealt with fascism first hand 
> (the Italian and German brigades most prominently).  I suppose you could 
> say that they were 'Stalinist' in the same sense that Russians who fought 
> the Germans to a standstill a few years later were 'Stalinist.'  Not sure 
> why you'd want to use the term there, though.
> 
> Jenny Brown
> 
> ^^^^^^
> CB: Perhaps the term popped out as an unconscious exhibition of the cunning 
> of reason or the dialectics of truth.

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