Between the GI Bill and the Congress of Cultural Freedom, the military industrial complex did more for culture than the NEA.
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@matthunte Part of story was that in 1940s/1950s Congress wouldn't fund arts directly, so arts policy by default went to m-i complex.1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
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@matthunte Yep. Even literary criticism, as I explain here: http://www.jeetheer.com/politics/cia.htm …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@matthunte All (or almost all) cultural funding in USSR and Warsaw Pact came from state, so no need to.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@matthunte Yes, but Soviet front groups did sponsor literary work. The Congress for Cultural Freedom was a direct resopnse to ...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@matthunte the Soviet World Peace Council for example. It won't be exhaustive, but this will be in my book out next year1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@PatrickIber@matthunte Right, there was a lot of mirror-imaging going on in Cold War, with groups like CCF borrowing popular front tactics3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@HeerJeet@matthunte In no small part because it was a lot of the same people, Communists in the 1930s turned ex- by the 1950s. ;-)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@PatrickIber @matthunte Yep. In some ways Popular Front & Trotskyism were incubation wards of Cold War liberalism & later neo-cons.
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@HeerJeet@PatrickIber I wonder how early you could tell which persons would stay liberal and which ones would go all the way Right.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@matthunte@HeerJeet It isn't ironclad, but the more dogmatic and unreasonable the leftist of the 1930s, the more likely to go right2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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