Block, Siteadmin, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, delete, edit, move, nsTeam2RO, nsTeam2RW, nsTeam2_talkRO, nsTeam2_talkRW, protect, rollback, Administrators, template
294,243
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 4:
Line 4: − + − − General Secretary [[Earl Browder]] described the success the [[CPUSA]] enjoyed in the use of front organizations: wrote in 1960, − {{Cquote|Entering the 1930's as a small [[radical|ultra-left]] sect of some 7,000 members... rose to become a national political influence far beyond its numbers (at its height it never exceeded 100,000 members), on a scale never before reached by a socialist movement claiming the [[Marxist]] tradition. It became a practical power in organized labour, its influence became strong in some state organizations of the [[Democratic Party]] (even dominant in a few for some years)...guided ...the [[American League for Peace and Democracy]] that united a cross-section of some five million organized Americans (a list of its sponsors and speakers would include almost a majority of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]]'s Cabinet, the most prominent intellectuals, judges of all grades up to State Supreme Courts, church leaders, labour leaders, etc.). Right-wing intellectuals complained that it exercised an effective veto in almost all publishing houses against their books, and it is at least certain that those right-wingers had extreme difficulty getting published.<ref>Earl Browder, ''Socialism in America'' in International Communism, St. Antony's Papers, Number 9, Edited by David Footman, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, III, 1960, p 101. [http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?lang=ru&booknr=164781192]</ref> }} − − == Stalin on fronts == − Line 18:
Line 12: + + + + + − +
no edit summary
A '''front organization''' is operated in two ways: either the Communists infiltrate an organization, work inside it (in Marxist language, the [[revolution]]ary mole burrows beneath the surface to "bore from within")<ref>[http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/12302/1/405 ''After Iowa'', [[Frank Chapman]], [[People's Weekly World]] Letters, Jan. 12, 2008].</ref> and eventually capture it; or they form their own organization - and simply invite the gullible in. In either case, many unsuspecting people wind up working to further some specific Marxist objective. A prime example is the manner in which [[Progressive]] [[Marxist]]s captured the [[Democratic Party]] under [[President Barack Obama]].
A '''front organization''' is operated in two ways: either the Communists infiltrate an organization, work inside it (in Marxist language, the [[revolution]]ary mole burrows beneath the surface to "bore from within")<ref>[http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/12302/1/405 ''After Iowa'', [[Frank Chapman]], [[People's Weekly World]] Letters, Jan. 12, 2008].</ref> and eventually capture it; or they form their own organization - and simply invite the gullible in. In either case, many unsuspecting people wind up working to further some specific Marxist objective. A prime example is the manner in which [[Progressive]] [[Marxist]]s captured the [[Democratic Party]] under [[President Barack Obama]].
==Browder on fronts==
== Stalin on fronts ==
[[File:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Stalin: We have "a veritable ant heap" of organizations.]]
[[File:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Stalin: We have "a veritable ant heap" of organizations.]]
{{Cquote|We have fashioned a number of organization without which we could not wage war on capitalism: trade unions, cooperatives, workshop committees, labor parties, women's associations, a labor press, educational leagues, youth societies.
{{Cquote|We have fashioned a number of organization without which we could not wage war on capitalism: trade unions, cooperatives, workshop committees, labor parties, women's associations, a labor press, educational leagues, youth societies.
There is a veritable ant heap of independent organizations, commissions, and committees comprising millions of non-party members. Who decides upon the direction that all these organizations take? Where is the central unit of organization that wields sufficient authority to keep them within prescribed lines in order to achieve unity of command and to avoid confusion?
There is a veritable ant heap of independent organizations, commissions, and committees comprising millions of non-party members. Who decides upon the direction that all these organizations take? Where is the central unit of organization that wields sufficient authority to keep them within prescribed lines in order to achieve unity of command and to avoid confusion?
The central unit is the [[Communist party]]! <ref>From the [[Stalin]] archives of the National War College in Washington, D.C., as quoted in ''Coronet'', vol. 29, no. 3 (January 1951), p. 23. [http://www.radiotimesbacknumbers.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=21190&CLSN_1667=12463736271667fc703a353a191b7737]</ref>}}
The central unit is the [[Communist party]]! <ref>From the [[Stalin]] archives of the National War College in Washington, D.C., as quoted in ''Coronet'', vol. 29, no. 3 (January 1951), p. 23. [http://www.radiotimesbacknumbers.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=21190&CLSN_1667=12463736271667fc703a353a191b7737]</ref>}}
==Browder on fronts==
[[Image:Earl Browder.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[FDR]] let Communist party boss Earl Browder out of jail provided that the Communist party back Roosevelt for a fourth term in 1944. His grandson [[Bill Browder]] was to play a role in [[Obamagate]] years later.]]
General Secretary [[Earl Browder]] described the success the [[CPUSA]] enjoyed in the use of front organizations: wrote in 1960,
{{Cquote|Entering the 1930's as a small [[radical|ultra-left]] sect of some 7,000 members... rose to become a national political influence far beyond its numbers (at its height it never exceeded 100,000 members), on a scale never before reached by a socialist movement claiming the [[Marxist]] tradition. It became a practical power in organized labour, its influence became strong in some state organizations of the [[Democratic Party]] (even dominant in a few for some years)...guided ...the [[American League for Peace and Democracy]] that united a cross-section of some five million organized Americans (a list of its sponsors and speakers would include almost a majority of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]]'s Cabinet, the most prominent intellectuals, judges of all grades up to State Supreme Courts, church leaders, labour leaders, etc.). Right-wing intellectuals complained that it exercised an effective veto in almost all publishing houses against their books, and it is at least certain that those right-wingers had extreme difficulty getting published.<ref>Earl Browder, ''Socialism in America'' in International Communism, St. Antony's Papers, Number 9, Edited by David Footman, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, III, 1960, p 101. [http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?lang=ru&booknr=164781192]</ref> }}
==Dimitrov on fronts==
==Dimitrov on fronts==
[[Image:Georgi Dimitrov.gif|right|150px|thumb|Dmitrov was accused by the [[Nazi]]s of [[Third_Reich#The_Reichstag_fire_and_aftermath|burning down the Reichstag]], fled to Moscow and headed up the [[Comintern]].]]
[[Image:Georgi Dimitrov.gif|right|150px|thumb|Dmitrov was accused by the [[Nazi]]s of [[Third_Reich#The_Reichstag_fire_and_aftermath|burning down the Reichstag]], fled to Moscow and headed up the [[Comintern]].]]
[[Georgi Dimitrov]] served as Secretary General of the [[Comintern]] from 1935 until 1943.
[[Georgi Dimitrov]] served as Secretary General of the [[Comintern]] from 1935 until 1943.
{{Cquote|Comrades, you remember the ancient tale of the capture of Troy. Troy was inacessible to the armies attacking her, thanks to her impregnable walls. And the attacking army, after suffering many sacrifices, was unable to achieve victory until with the aid of the famous Trojan horse it managed to penetrate the very heart of the enemy's camp.
{{Cquote|Comrades, you remember the ancient tale of the capture of Troy. Troy was inaccessible to the armies attacking her, thanks to her impregnable walls. And the attacking army, after suffering many sacrifices, was unable to achieve victory until with the aid of the famous Trojan horse it managed to penetrate the very heart of the enemy's camp.
"We revolutionary workers, it appears to me, should not be shy about using the same tactics . . .<ref>Georgi Dimitroff, The United Front (New York, International Publishers, 1938), p. 52, quoted from a report to the Seventh World Congress (August 1935).</ref><ref>William A. Nolan, ''Communism Versus the Negro'' (Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1951), p. 115.</ref>}}
"We revolutionary workers, it appears to me, should not be shy about using the same tactics . . .<ref>Georgi Dimitroff, The United Front (New York, International Publishers, 1938), p. 52, quoted from a report to the Seventh World Congress (August 1935).</ref><ref>William A. Nolan, ''Communism Versus the Negro'' (Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1951), p. 115.</ref>}}