[lbo-talk] Re: Marxist Democracy

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Tue May 11 14:26:37 PDT 2004


A few days ago I discovered that the SFPL had microfilm for the New Militant, which was the publication when James Cannon, one of the founders of Trotskyism in the U.S.A. and A.J. Muste, a leader of the Toledo sit-down strikes in '34, if memory serves,later the left pacifist leader in the 50's and 60's, were a team. ("See Cannon and Muste speak @ ___Labor Temple $1.00."

Muste in the late thirties had something akin to a born again experience in France. A.J. Muste said during WWII, If I cannot love Hitler, who can I love?

Gitlin in his book on the Sixties, recounting the confrontration between the SLID/SDS kids Tom Hayden et. al. over the anti-Communist exclusion clause, relates a particularly vitriolic exchange between Irving Howe and Hayden, over AH.

Michael Pugliese



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