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Luscomb visited mainland China in 1962, more than a decade before the United States government made any attempt to normalize relations with that country. And, only seven years before, during the McCarthy era, she was summoned to appear before the Massachusetts Commission to Investigate Communism and Subversion and interrogated about her organizational activities. These had included, since 1920, executive secretaryships of the Boston League of Women Voters, the Mass. Civic League, the Joint Board of Sanitary Control supervising health and safety conditions in garment factories, and for seven years, the Mass. branch of the Women's International League for Peace...
...Communism. In what may be the first official recognition of the term Eurocommunism by Moscow's ideologues. New Times argues that the movement is an invention of "bourgeois theorists ... There is only one Communism-namely that whose foundations were laid by Marx, Engels and Lenin and whose principles are adhered to by the present-day [Soviet-led] Communist movement...
...although it is impossible to say how much or how systematic. Without question, the government -which all too quickly labels many kinds of criticism or opposition as Communist-vastly exaggerates the situation. There is a lot of Marxist or quasi-Marxist talk, but basically the blacks know little of Communism-except that it appears to be on their side. Official South Africa believes that it is making a brave stand against Communist encroachment. In fact, the South African regime is a formidable ally of Communism...
...attack is Trilling's response to the furor created last spring when her original publisher refused to go ahead with the book unless Trilling removed some remarks about Lillian Hellman in an essay defending American liberals' role in the anticommunist movement of the '50s. (A classic liberal, Trilling considers communism a terrible danger. In a 1967 essay included in this volume, she says the war in Vietnam is a serious error, not because it represents American aggression, but because it is not the best way to stop the Red Menace.) Trilling refused to comply with the publisher. She justifies...
Powerfully, Kissinger explored some of the deeper reasons for Communism's present gains. "In the end," he said, "the Communist parties find their opportunities less in their inherent strength than in the demoralization, division or disorganization of their opponents; they succeed only when the democratic system seems unable to solve the social problems of the day, when the center does not hold and societies become polarized." Violence, such as that currently tormenting Italy, drives many to support Communism in desperation. Ticking off some of the basic causes of Communist gains, Kissinger noted: "A relativist age debunks authority and puts...