Word: trotskyist
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Common Sense was founded ten years ago this month by two young Yale intellectuals who had the idea that the U.S. needed a magazine of native (i.e., non-Stalinist, non-Trotskyist) radicalism. Founder Alfred Bingham, one of the seven versatile sons of Connecticut's Old Guard Republican Senator Hiram, had at the age of 27 already traveled around Europe and taught school in Russia. Founder Selden Rodman, was, at 23, a poet who detested the word pinko and who, at Yale, edited a radical undergraduate magazine...
...thing, the convictions can be confused with a condemnation of the doctrines of the Socialist Workers' Party, to which the defendants belong. Because Marxist and Trotskyist literature was discovered in the Party offices, and because the defendants are believers in the Socialist doctrine of a working class revolution, they were convicted. The prosecution's attempt to pin the threat of immediate armed revolution on them was thrown out of court as an ungrounded farce...
...country. These 18 were tried under the Smith act, which slipped through Congress a few months ago, making it illegal to express an opinion concerning the propriety of the overthrow of the government by force and violence. The only evidence which the government produced was the Marxist and Trotskyist literature which was found in the offices of the defendants, members of the Minneapolis Teamsters; Union and the Minneapolis Socialist Workers' Party. The government abandoned completely its attempt to prove any overt acts...
...rifle practice was abandoned. Last official act of the volunteer marksmen was to act as ushers at a children's Christmas party held by the Union. The charge of conspiracy has already been dropped, and the State rests its case very simply on the fact that Marixst and Trotskyist literature was found in the offices of the union and the party, and on quotations from that literature...
...Between Stalinist and Trotskyist now burns a high red hate...