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'''Broadus Mitchell''' was a well-known socialist<ref>Jeff Kisseloff, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/wars.html Distorted Reflections], The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth</ref> who served as candidate<ref>[http://www.hofstra.edu/Libraries/WestCampus/SpecialCollections/sc_afc_broadus_mitchell.cfm Broadus Mitchell (1892-1988): Author, Professor, Economist], Special Collections, University Archives Special Collections, Hofstra University</ref> for [[Governor]] of [[Maryland]] for the Socialist Party<ref>"He ran for Governor of Maryland as a Socialist..." [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,761370,00.html Education: Head on a Platter], ''Time'', May. 22, 1939</ref> (U.S. supporter of the [[Comintern]]).<ref>"The Socialist Party of the United States, therefore, declares itself in support of the Third (Moscow) International..." Document No. 7: "Minority Report Adopted by Overwhelming Party Vote on Referendum on Submission to the Emergency National Convention Held at Chicago, September, 1919," reprinted in Joint Legislative Committee of the State of New York Investigating Seditious Activities, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Vq0XAAAAYAAJ Revolutionary Radicalism: Its History, Purpose and Tactics]'', Part I, Vol. I (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1920), p. 626</ref>
Mitchell was also a professor of Economics at [[Johns Hopkins University]], where one of his more notable students was [[Alger Hiss]], who recalled Mitchell as one of his favorite instructors.<ref>Matthew Richer, "[http://www.mmisi.org/ma/46_04/richer.pdf The Ongoing Campaign of Alger Hiss: The Sins of the Father]," ''Modern Age'', Vol. 46, No. 4 (Fall 2004), p. 310 (PDF p. 4)</ref> According to Hiss, Mitchell was simply a "gifted" [[economics]] [[professor]] who happened to hold some "mildly Socialistic" views.<ref>"My gifted economics teacher, Broadus Mitchell, a Socialist.... his mildly Socialistic opinions ... made no impression on us." Alger Hiss, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/liberalism.html Draft of a Chapter Written By Alger Hiss on the Foundations For His Liberalism] ([http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu//?itemid=|library%2fm%2faleph|010072878 Alger Hiss papers], Small Manuscript Collection, [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/special/index.html Special Collections], [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/index.html Harvard Law School Library])</ref>
In fact Mitchell distinguished socialism from [[communism]] only in "[[strategy]] and [[procedure]]," not "essential [[theory]]."<ref>"[T]he difference between socialism and communism.... is not one of object, but of means of attainment of the object; it has to do with strategy and procedure, and not with essential theory." Broadus Mitchell, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nB5BAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1 A Preface to Economics]'' (Henry Holt & Co., 1932-34), p. 557.</ref>
After student [[Sidney Offit]] wrote an editorial in the Johns Hopkins campus newspaper defending [[Alger Hiss|Hiss]] and [[Owen Lattimore]], castigating students who merely "applauded daintily" for the latter, rather than taking to the streets, Mitchell, wrote Offit, "adopted me as his radical protégé-in-waiting."<ref>Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 71-72</ref> Later serving as a Reserve Officer in Army Intelligence at a time when Communist couriers were infiltrating the US Merchant Marines,<ref>[http://ia310819.us.archive.org/3/items/communistactivit60unit/communistactivit60unit_bw.pdf Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I], Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1960), p. 1760 (PDF p. 22)</ref> Offit wrote, "it was my job to interview prospective crewmen for merchant marine ships to be sure no advocates of [[Karl Marx]] were allowed aboard. Somehow or other I always found a reason to pass on these workingmen regardless of their flirtations with the 'forceful overthrow of the United States government.'"<ref>Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 13-14</ref>
==Notes==
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* Joan Cook, [http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/30/obituaries/broadus-mitchell-95-professor-historian-and-hamilton-authority.html Broadus Mitchell, 95, Professor, Historian and Hamilton Authority]," ''The New York Times'', April 30, 1988
Mitchell was also a professor of Economics at [[Johns Hopkins University]], where one of his more notable students was [[Alger Hiss]], who recalled Mitchell as one of his favorite instructors.<ref>Matthew Richer, "[http://www.mmisi.org/ma/46_04/richer.pdf The Ongoing Campaign of Alger Hiss: The Sins of the Father]," ''Modern Age'', Vol. 46, No. 4 (Fall 2004), p. 310 (PDF p. 4)</ref> According to Hiss, Mitchell was simply a "gifted" [[economics]] [[professor]] who happened to hold some "mildly Socialistic" views.<ref>"My gifted economics teacher, Broadus Mitchell, a Socialist.... his mildly Socialistic opinions ... made no impression on us." Alger Hiss, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/liberalism.html Draft of a Chapter Written By Alger Hiss on the Foundations For His Liberalism] ([http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu//?itemid=|library%2fm%2faleph|010072878 Alger Hiss papers], Small Manuscript Collection, [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/special/index.html Special Collections], [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/index.html Harvard Law School Library])</ref>
In fact Mitchell distinguished socialism from [[communism]] only in "[[strategy]] and [[procedure]]," not "essential [[theory]]."<ref>"[T]he difference between socialism and communism.... is not one of object, but of means of attainment of the object; it has to do with strategy and procedure, and not with essential theory." Broadus Mitchell, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nB5BAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1 A Preface to Economics]'' (Henry Holt & Co., 1932-34), p. 557.</ref>
After student [[Sidney Offit]] wrote an editorial in the Johns Hopkins campus newspaper defending [[Alger Hiss|Hiss]] and [[Owen Lattimore]], castigating students who merely "applauded daintily" for the latter, rather than taking to the streets, Mitchell, wrote Offit, "adopted me as his radical protégé-in-waiting."<ref>Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 71-72</ref> Later serving as a Reserve Officer in Army Intelligence at a time when Communist couriers were infiltrating the US Merchant Marines,<ref>[http://ia310819.us.archive.org/3/items/communistactivit60unit/communistactivit60unit_bw.pdf Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I], Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1960), p. 1760 (PDF p. 22)</ref> Offit wrote, "it was my job to interview prospective crewmen for merchant marine ships to be sure no advocates of [[Karl Marx]] were allowed aboard. Somehow or other I always found a reason to pass on these workingmen regardless of their flirtations with the 'forceful overthrow of the United States government.'"<ref>Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 13-14</ref>
==Notes==
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* Joan Cook, [http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/30/obituaries/broadus-mitchell-95-professor-historian-and-hamilton-authority.html Broadus Mitchell, 95, Professor, Historian and Hamilton Authority]," ''The New York Times'', April 30, 1988