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                                             October 19, 2010
                                             August  22, 2013



    "The Communist Party by the 1970s was a pathetic thing,
    at its core a collection of seniors with relatively
    little capacity left for direct political organizing,
    still ignoring the crimes of Stalinism and deeply
    committed to a politics of duplicity.  Around these old
    Lincoln Brigade vets were a younger circle of African
    American activists -- Angela Davis is the name everyone
    recognizes -- actually attempting to use the resources of
    this ancient organization.  Characteristically, every
    left moverment in the Bay area had one or two CP members
    whose job it was to be supportive of the movement and
    report back to the organization on our "progress" in
    on-the-ground socialism.  [...] Their behavior was very
    much like that of police infilitrators but without the
    crazed provocatism.  From some of them, I gradually got
    an image of what a lifetime committed to the left might
    look like."

                  -- Ron Silliman
                     "Under Albany", p.58





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