[lbo-talk] When to Talk About Socialism

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 23 22:15:00 PST 2004


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:38:36 -0500, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at rogers.com> wrote:


> Along the same lines, though it could be apocryphal, an instruction from
> the
> central committee of the CP of Great Britain in the 20s to party
> branches:
> "Party members are directed to make every effort to penetrate the lower
> organs of the proletariat."

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1995/207/207p25.htm Antagonising with wit and verv

The Golden Age Is In Us: Journeys and Encounters 1987-1994 By Alexander Cockburn Verso, 1995. 434 pp., $59.95 (hb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon
> ...His strictures against dry, turgid left-wing jargon, however, are
> opportune. He recalls his father's cool treatment in the Communist Party
> of Great Britain in the '30s when he suggested that a Comintern
> directive that " ... the lower organs of the Party must make greater
> efforts to penetrate the more backward parts of the proletariat" would
> have had sturdy proletarians rolling on the floor laughing at the
> unintentional blue humour.

-- Michael Pugliese...and Hari calls me a prude, heh...



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