"A chicken in every pot, an icepick in every Trot."
Hey, that's a line in a poem by, "Ray O. Light, " so obscure only inveterate readers of the classified ads on the old (NY) Guardian will remember who he is. He shows up on a Canadian website Chris Doss should peruse, Compass, if memory serves. Apologetics for Uncle Joe.
Carrol's point, I agree with. SF DSA has members that spent decades in the CPUSA. Tim Wohlforth, Tim Sears and I marched with a bunch of CCDS'ers recently.
My old friend from college, red-diaper baby Eric Kirk (who has a relative in WWP, Hilda Roberts) said Nat Weinstein ex-SWP, now Socialist Action (or Socialist Worker Org. I'm blanking on which right now, latter a split from SA.) told him that a SWP meeting in the Bay Area in the early 60's was threatened by a bunch of thugs from the CPUSA waving icepicks. Michael Pugliese P.S. By all means rent a bad movie where Richard Burton plays LDT in Mexico. Burton probably used the icepick to chop off some ice to throw in a drink of whiskey.Anhother bad movie, Omar Sharif as Che.
On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:43:45 -0400, Chip Berlet <cberlet at igc.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Both the SWP and the CPUSA were very active in the antiwar (Vietnam)
> movement. Both were the major organizing forces behind two major
> "coalitions."
>
> NPAC/SWP National Peace Action Coalition
> PCPJ/CPUSA People's Coalition for Peaqce and Justice
>
> They sometimes co-sponsored national marches in DC.
>
> There was--how to say this--some tension.
>
> For instance, at the PCPJ HQ in DC for one national march on Washington,
> there was the drinking society that called itself the "Icepick Brigade"
> whose slogan was "A chicken in every pot, an icepick in every Trot."
>
> -Chip "I ran the mimeograph machine at PCPJ" Berlet
>
>
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> Carroll: you're on the money about the CP's role in the civil rights
> movement, but not in the anti-Vietnam War movement. there the big old
> left
> party was the SWP. jks
>
>> > ...Corey in an article in the Antioch Review in '46 made a case for
>> > Stalinists not being a tendency on Left at all, but as a totalitarian
>> > interloper from the Right.
>
> Yes, and those interlopers from the right made possible the civil
> rightsd movement, made possible the antiwar movement, and made possible
> the existence of all of us on this list today.
>
> If only they had all followed Norman Thomas or Lionel Trilling. We'd
> still have Jim Crow in the South and no one would ever have heard of the
> Vietnam antiwar movement.
>
> Carrol
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"Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went on talking without listening to each other. Sometimes we flattered and praised each other, understanding that we would be flattered and praised in return. Other times we abused and shouted at each other, as if we were in a madhouse." -Tolstoy