[lbo-talk] Jihad vs. the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
BrownBingb at aol.com
BrownBingb at aol.com
Thu Apr 10 20:48:31 PDT 2003
:
> 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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