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

[Carrol Cox]

On 10/4/2011 5:22 PM, SA wrote:
> On 10/4/2011 5:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> 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.

I'm aware of that, but the CP wasn't _merely_ carrying out orders from 
Moscow. I don't think Moscow ordered the CP in Wisconsin to support 
McCarthy in the Republican primary because he would be the easiest 
Republican to defeat in the general election. The CP was large there, 
and its voters in the Republican primary made the difference.

And of course the U.S. did not in the least "support the antifascis 
cause abroad." Instead it joined France & England in refusing to sell 
arms to the Spanish Republic, thereby dooming it to defeat.

I have a good deal of sympathy and even admiration for the rank and file 
of the CP through the '60s, & Truman & Eisenhower's repression of the 
Party is a living shame. But one can't excuse tits gross tailing of the 
DP merely on orders from Moxcow.

Carrol