From: ziplock@yabbs
To: htoaster@yabbs
Subject: re: @ & econ
Date: Sun Nov 29 14:46:14 1992
In message re: @ & econ, htoaster said:
> As for socialist parties, there are a lot of them, but nothing that
> widely known (ie, something that more than 50% of the people would have 
> heard of, all though in the us, 50%of america might not know what 
> socialism is either).

Well the IWW (Wobblies) are quite well known among unionists, which is
a pretty big chunk of people, and when people say "The Communist Party" they
are usually thinking about the CPUSA, which was the main target of the House
Unamerican Activitees Committee investigations spurred on by Joe McCarthy in
the '50s.  As it turns out, the CPUSA wiggled out of a lot of charges
regarding foreign contacts (with the Soviet Union) when many of those we
have now found out were true -- the CPUSA got a lot of money from the
Soviets, though not very recently.  All that got uncovered after the Soviet
government collapsed and all sorts of records were made public.
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