Word: browders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Earl Russell Browder was kicked out of the Communist Party in 1946, a discredited symbol of Russia's wartime policy of playing down the coming revolt of the masses, his onetime comrades gave his character a routine knifing, then abandoned him to the lonely death of a political heretic. But Browder refused to die. He hustled off to Moscow, checked into the best hotel in town, and paid a call on Molotov. Two months later Browder was back in the U.S. as American representative of three official Russian publishing houses. The Kremlin had apparently decided that Browder...
Last week the option seemed to have run out. A newsman called at Browder's one-room, $100-a-month office on Manhattan's West 42nd Street and found that the publishing business had been closed up since the end of July. Earl Browder no longer had a pipeline to the Kremlin. "I have not been able to talk to Joe Stalin and find out if he still loves me," said Browder, wryly. "I am unemployed at present and looking...
...Browder was kicked out of the party. Just to keep him on ice, Moscow commissioned him to act as an agent in the U.S. for Soviet publishers. In a one-room office on 42nd Street, he smoked his pipe and stared into space, loyally mumbling the line that the assassination of his character was only an "incidental of a political struggle." It was as close to accuracy as Comrade Browder ever...
Dennis quickly learned the new doctrine and stared into the tunnel now yawning before him. Who would be chosen for Browder's job? There were some fairly smart men around headquarters: Jack Stachel, a little man with the face of a heron who had been in & out of the underground; cold, Kewpie-like John Williamson, national labor secretary. But Moscow's hand fell on the shoulder of U.S.-born Eugene Dennis...
Loudly and vehemently Dennis disclaimed Browderism, of which he had been one of the loudest mouthpieces when Browderism was the party line. He told the comrades: in their zeal to defeat Hitler, he and the other chieftains around headquarters had "dragged at the tail end of Roosevelt . . . did not adequately maintain our own Communist identity and vanguard role." This is the sin now known, in the Aesopian doubletalk of communism, as "tailism." Browder, said Dennis, was still hypnotized by his "original opportunist illusions." But Dennis' eyes had been opened. To the barricades...