Word: cp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart of the Secretary's argument is his contention that, above all else, the bona fide CP member is devoted to a system of thought which has as its end the overthrow of the American Constitution. There is, indeed, some justification for this thesis. But when Mr. Schwellenbach tries to apply this line of reasoning to the problem of eliminating Communist influence he trips and falls, for his premise does almost everything except support his conclusions...
Until now, the leaders of groups threatened by Communist infiltration have at least had the comfort of knowing who was and who was not a CP member, and could with some acuity predicate their course of action on this knowledge. The proposal to outlaw the Communist Party would only make it increasingly difficult--or impossible--to deal with this most difficult facet of the problem...
Dubious as it may be to the man in the street, the prestige in the "National Leader" title of the CP runs high to those ideologically deep scarlet. For years, Budenz reports, William Foster continually sought to anticipate policy changes (they have been know to be drastic) and "jump the Line" on Browder. Through this period the Editor of the Daily Worker may have been near to getting the goods, but from the standpoint of documentary evidence, he still has to prove that he was not extremely far. It is difficult to swallow cloak-and-dagger melodrama in a land...
...their drive for control of labor unions, they rely on five basic types of workers: 1) the Party member (secret or avowed); 2) the fellow traveler (not a CP member but an ardent follower); 3) the sympathizer (in essential agreement with the Communist line); 4) the opportunist (who makes alliance with the militant CPers); 5) the liberal (fundamentally in disagreement but approving immediate demands...
...spot CPers? Said R.I.A.: read the New York Daily Worker for a sure guide to the Party line. Watch workers for their attitudes towards prominent anti-Communist labor leaders such as David Dubinsky, Walter Reuther. Read all the campaign material issued by both sides in plant elections. Characteristics of CP literature: violence of utterance; unreasonable criticisms; charges that the opposition is fascist; use of such CP jargon as "deviationist," "Lovestoneite," "revisionist," "capitalist contradiction," "dialectic," "mass base...