That line was stuck in the "to be sure, the Communist party was not perfect" paragraphhttps://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/872127141617569792 …
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Correct.
Agree very much that "seeming" in that sentence is terrible. Michael Harrington, founder of @DissentMag, would have wretched at that.
Nowhere else to go politically in pre-1960s America if you really believed in racial equality.
Not quite true -- there were non-Leninist socialists and anarchists who were anti-racist as well.
It's true that the CPUSA was often the only org providing attorneys to poor black defendants...(1/3)
...but problem was that CPUSA was, at Moscow's orders, trying to produce martyrs rather than acquittals. [2/3]
Their legal strategies were always about anti-capitalist speechifying rather than law, because black ppl were more useful dead than alive
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