[lbo-talk] communists

Bhaskar Sunkara bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 09:47:00 PST 2009


Or was the quote just about the United States? That number doesn't sound that absurd.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com
> wrote:


> I guess the hundreds of thousands from the Indonesian Communists Party
> alone weren't "hardcore", but had to be exterminated anyway.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> I recall reading somewhere in Hobsbawm that at the peak of its influence
>> the Communist movement had something like just 20,000 hardcore activists.
>> Anyone know the details on this?
>>
>> Doug
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