[lbo-talk] Fwd: Has the Left given up on Economics ? « The Disorder Of Things

[SA]

On 10/4/2011 5:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> a) There was no fascist threat in the U.S., and hence no pressing need 
> for a "united front" or "popular front" to prevent fascist usurpation 
> of power.

The "need" was to try to get the US govt (and others) to support the 
antifascist cause abroad.

Let's please remember that the CP wasn't a local revolutionary 
groupuscule, it considered itself a battalion of a worldwide army HQ'ed 
in Moscow.

SA