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...doubt this common attitude is significant, but more important is the fact that all four men were rather unorthodox Communists. None of them felt entirely comfortable with the corpus of Marx's thought, much less with the Stalinist Communist Party of the USA. Eastman and Burnham were both Troskyists who regarded Stalin as a Slavophilic counter-revolutionary, and neither accepted the Marxist account of the inevitable progress of history. Herberg was a member of the small Lovestoneite faction of the CPUSA, a bitter anti-Stalinist, and an exponent of "American exceptionalism"--the view that the US would have to follow...
...both their early attraction to Marxism and their later repudiation of it in favor of conservatism. "Open a copy of National Review," he says, "and we find the renegades from radicalism as cold war avengers. Positions have changed, but the passions remain." The ex-communist becomes an "inverted Stalinist", in Isaac Deutscher's phrase. Diggins defers to Deutscher's descriptions of such...
...Union. Just as the Russians are now said to be less threatening to peace, local Communists-who were long suspected by many voters because of their tie-in with the Kremlin-similarly seem less dangerous. Moreover, a new generation in the West is too young to remember the militantly Stalinist attitudes and often violent actions of Communist parties in both Western and Eastern Europe in the post-World War II years...
...denounced the Kremlin for "restoring capitalism and impoverishing the people." In Yugoslavia, President Josip Broz Tito has ordered mass arrests of people suspected of conspiring with Soviet agents to sub vert his government. The Kremlin has lately been embarrassed by the politi cal misjudgments of Portugal's aggressive Stalinist party. The huge 1,730,000member Italian party has now been joined by the 275,000-member French party in rejecting the Marxist model for Communism in their countries and in proclaiming (convincingly or not) their adherence to Western democratic principles. So troubled are relations of the foreign parties with...
Robeson's longstanding and ardent support of the Soviet Union, even during the outrages of the Stalinist period, show a tragic blindness to the true nature of the Soviet system, and perhaps a real lack of political sophistication. But to use this element in his career to condemn either Robeson the man, or Robeson the symbol, is misleading and wrong. Robeson the man was defined by boundless compassion: for war refugees, for his oppressed black brothers, and in a real sense, for all who suffered in an uncaring world. And Robeson the symbol represented, not the Communist Party...