Well worth reading. My thinking is tending exactly in the direction summed up in the last few paragraphs of quotes from Bert Cochran. Parenthetically, I did know Milt and Edith Zaslow in Los Angeles, when I was a member of a group called the Revolutionary Marxist Committee that fused with the Socialist Workers Party in 1977. My relations with Milt and Edith centered around thee fact that they cheerfully handed out SWP Internal Bulletins to anyone who wanted to understand the FAPO fight within the SWP. Personally it was all way over my head in those days but I was merely a conduit feeding that massive tome-like documents to leaders of the RMC. Milt and Edith had an apartment in the second floor that was approached by a narrow staircase that had an locked iron grating at the foot to keep out people who wanted to firebomb Milt and Edith for their efforts on behalf of, if I remember correctly, the Black Panther Party. @Melody Roberts may remember that part better than I.
Premier issue of the American Socialist, January 1954
Yesterday I got some great news from David Walters of the Marxism Internet Archives:
Louis,
as promised, the entire run of The American Socialist has finally be digitized into high quality PDFs. I integrated the HTML you had done previously into the table of contents. Let everyone who needs to know, know. I’ll announce on Facebook and the MIA’s What’s New page tonight or tomorrow.
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/american_socialist.htm
Comradely,
David
Some background is in order.
A year or two after Marxmail was launched back in 1998, I noticed that someone named Sol Dollinger had subscribed. That name rang a bell. I wrote Sol asking if he was related to Genora Dollinger, who as Genora Johnson led the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937. She was indeed, he replied. He was married to her until her death at the age of 82…
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