[lbo-talk] Using the label "fascist"

[Michael Pugliese]

  On Sat, 17 May 2003 20:25:26 EDT, <BrownBingb at aol.com> wrote:

 And
> as the serious and  honest anti-fascists of the 30's said, "there is no 
> premature anti-fascism"

   For this Charles will contact SDUSA HQ in D.C., send in whatever their 
dues are, and have them send me a membership card, heh.

   The myth of "premature anti-fascism" by Harvey Klehr & John E. Haynes . 
> From The New Criterion Vol. 21, No. 1 ... 
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/sept02/spain.htm

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(I have the Proletarian Publishers (of San Francisco in the 70's) reprint 
of a book, CB, doubtless knows of and might have read, "The Secret War 
Against Russia, " by Stalinoids, Sayers and Kahn.Full of slanderous rubbish 
on Trotsky and all the Old Bolsheviks killed by JVS, as supposed Nazi- 
fascists. Yup, Bukharin, a fascist and all the rest.)   <URL: 
http://www.marx2mao.org/Stalin/SCPUSA29.html >
FOREWORD

    Proletarian Publishers has printed Stalin's three speeches on the 
American Communist Party in order to accomplish two tasks. The first is to 
dispel the myth that the CPUSA was ever a bolshevik party in the tradition 
of Lenin and Stalin. Such views are now being advanced together with the 
idea that William Z. Foster was a great Marxist-Leninist in order to divert 
Marxist-Leninists in this country from the historic task of building a 
true, multinational Marxist-Leninist Communist Party in this country. We do 
not need a new version of the old CPUSA but a party in the tradition of 
Lenin and Stalin.

    The second is to expose the evils of factionalism and American 
Exceptionalism. These were rife in the CPUSA in 1929 just as they are 
today. No party can survive such deviations without the most ruthless 
struggle to expose and correct such errors.

-- 
Michael Pugliese

"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