>Carrol Cox wrote:
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>>Did anybody change their opinions because of Mencken? Did he have any
>>measurable political effect? Or did he speak only to those whose
>>opinions were made up.
Mencken published Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright during the 30's when they were in the CP. (Fascinating material on Ellison, Wright and others on the Black Left in relation to figures like V.J. Jerome the so called cultural commisar of the CPUSA in a bio of Ellison, Author:Jackson, Lawrence Patrick. Title:Ralph Ellison : Emergence of Genius, New York : Wiley, c2002. ) If Carrol had edited the LRS journal, would he have, as the late lamented Guardian did, even in its ultra maoist period, published Trotskyist, libertarian communist, or social democratic polemics? Question answers itself.
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