Yes, I know, Doug ;-)
Malcolm X as foil to MLK, Jr. You either get his program or you get, "Burn Baby, Burn!, " from Stokely Carmichael.
An irony of the bad blood between Lacny and I is that DSA and CCDS/CPUSA type politics are so similiar, ritualistic pieties aside, me to Socialists and Trotskyists, his to the ghost of Gus Hall and William Zig-Zag Foster.Communists and Socialists have contributed far more to reforming US capitalism than they ever have, in their fantasies to building a Revolutionary Movement. Socialists and Communists here have always been the left-wing of corporate liberalism.