Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: “After the revolution even we will have more, won’t we, dear?” Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picnickers on her property.

I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew — at least they claimed to be Communists — couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.

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  • In the USA we got unsactioned low grade hoovervilles. Unemployment has got to be at least 24%…with about 1.7 trillion dollars in credit debt with a dollar cut in half… Iran if it wants to exist better be making nukes. Can you imagine building all that tunnel with no nukes. Fingers crossed. Who was the only country in the world that has dropped nukes on a civilian population. People have a right to exsit. Sovereignty must be respected desipte our silly games of crapitalism. If I were IRAN i would be letting the yanks know whats up while not blasting it on social media. They classy… If things don’t cool down it is gonna get bumpy. Israel now is like a crazy ex that won’t go away. ewww