Yeah, except Carroll's labelling of Trumanism for the kicking of left unions out of the CIO ignores the basic fact that most Democrats voted against it and Truman vetoed Taft-Hartley. Folks like Carroll talk about not "dividing the movement" but they never miss a chance to trash anyone in the Democratic party. Some unity.
-- Nathan Newman
--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> joanna bujes wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> There were a number of factors operating of course,
> but one of the
> greatest successes of Trumanism (a more accurate
> label for the red hunt
> than mccarthyism) was the driving of not just CP
> members but of anyone
> sympathetic to communism out of the labor unions:
> i.e., the barring of
> reds or "reds" from coalition activities. That made
> a big difference in
> the quality of the '60s movement, which would have
> been quite different
> had there been a significant radical presence in a
> number of major
> unions.
>
> Carrol
>
>
> > Joanna
>
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