Word: cp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson: Were you actually members of the CP...
Phillips: The position of the CP was an historical disaster--only a fool or a knave could have supported it after...
Phillips [snorting]: It was a concocted notion, a political notion invented by the CP for its own purposes. It was primarily a political weapon, and existed to the extent that writers believed it existed. No, I think it had only a small impact--if any--on later American literature. I think James T. Farrell and John Dos Passos produced the best fiction during those years, but I wouldn't particularly call it "proletarian...