Red purge

[joanna bujes]

At 01:34 PM 03/05/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >The Red Purge has also had deleterious impacts on non-socialists as
> >well, as you can obviously see in the attitudes of most LBO
> >anarchists and non-socialists here.
>
>There's some truth to this, but there's also some bullshit to it too.
>Any critique of the politics, organization, or rhetorical style of
>the sects is dismissed by sympathizers as redbaiting. Sometimes it is
>redbaiting, but sometimes it isn't. Many socialists (e.g. David
>McReynolds) and many Marxists (e.g. me) have problems with our
>vanguard parties. Anarchism, too, is a highly honorable radical
>tradition, and it's offensive to see it treated as a species of
>McCarthyism.

Also, I seem to remember reading somewhere that what decimated the CP in 
the U.S. was not McCarthyism as much as Krustchev's official owning up to 
the reality of Stalinism in the SU.

Joanna