Posted on 04/22/2007 1:29:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
NEW YORK // Crammed with Lenin buttons, dusty memos from the McCarthy period, and crumbling pages of internal briefings dating back a century, the 2,000 cardboard boxes handed over to New York University last month hold secrets about the Communist Party USA that make archivist Peter Filardo's heart flutter.
...Last year, Filardo received a phone call from the Communist Party's national chairman, Sam Webb, who told him the organization wanted to donate its archival collection to the Tamiment Library at NYU. The party planned to renovate its headquarters, Webb said, and it no longer had room for the cache, which took up several floors.
Filardo's pulse raced at the notion of rummaging through the attic of American communism. An archivist for 28 years, his passion is progressive American history. What a thrill it would be, he thought, to examine membership lists, read confidential letters intended for party leaders, sort through the Daily Worker newspaper morgue. What debate, he wondered, would the archives spark about communism's links to women's suffrage and the civil rights movement?
Filardo contacted the library director, Michael Nash. This call, he told him, was important. The NYU library is one of the nation's premier research centers for the history of the American left. The proposal seemed fit for marriage, and Nash agreed.....
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I can see why this guy would get so excited.
Wait til he finds those Grateful Dead ticket stubs and the stale Pringles...
“An archivist for 28 years, his passion is progressive American history”.
...perhaps this asshat should have a passion for the kind of American history that placed him in his current position of absolute freedom. In latin terms his breed is known as “dipshiteous maximus”.
Oh my, how awful--marginalized! The humanity!
Of course, in various commie paradises, those associated with anti-communism are marginalized...into unmarked graves. But we won't talk about that in this puff piece.
It was written by Joe Hill, a songwriter and labor organizer, who was jailed for a murder some believed he did not commit.
Uh, yeah--EVERYONE who's jailed for a murder has some people believing he didn't commit the crime.
Dopes having orgasms over worthless crap associated with a philosophical illness meant to tear down the society which has brought more to the poor and working class than any other, ever.
The only thing lower than a stinking communist is a jihadist. OTOH, at least a jihadist is honestly trying to kill us, enslave us, etc., and gives his reasons in advance.
This makes perfect sense as they aren't Communists any more they are Enviromentalists and members of "The Green Party".
"Global Climate Change" is their synonym for "From each according to his ability, to each according to their need."
You get a Gold Star for that one, Jimmy.
Spot on!
Hugo Chavez has no problem with them.
I hate commies, but I hate Jihadis even more. At least the goal of the commies isn’t my murder and the murder of my family and friends.
The American Communist Pary shares its headquarters with the DNC.
No, it's their goal is a living death.
They call themselves progressives these days, or environmentalists.
A complete flip flop from red to green? But what’s in a name?
The American voter has started the downfall of America.
That is why the enviromentalists are called “watermelons”; So very green on the outside but very very red on the inside.
LOL! And all this time I thought it referred to the shape and size of their heads. ;-)
Yes, the commies need us for tax revenue. If we disagree with their philosophy, then slave labor camps or mental hospitals.
Unless of course your family and friends want to live free. Then your a easily solved problem which involves such things as tanks crushing you in the street. Murder of you and your children and rape of your wife. I am not trying to be a smart ass but look at what the Soviets did to the Hungarians who wouldn't submit.
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