On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> Armed CP fighters alone - you can't get more "active" than that -
> numbered in the tens of thousands in Spain and occupied Europe, and
> the hundreds of thousands when China and other liberation movements
> are included, at the peak of the Comintern's global influence
> between 1935-45.
Let me say this again, since people seem to be missing it: I think Hobsbawm was talking about hardcore members, professional revolutionaries, cadre, whatever you want to call them - and not the rank and file or the infantry or whatever.
Doug