[Calpernia]

http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2008/02/26/obama-mentor-identified-as-communist.aspx

Excerpt:

1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What’s more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several Communist front organizations.

[bvw]

Re communists of that time. There were good souls who fell for the propaganda that genuine Marxists and fellow travelers produce. Amity Shales documents that propaganda and some of the fellow travelers very well in her book "The Forgotten Man", which pretty well deconstructs the FDR terms. Very few did not get infected by the bug in some way and some of those good but deluded souls became communists.

The Red Scares and the McCarthy hearings did NOT do a good job of peeling off the bad from the good. Moreover the Soviets (and even Mao himself to some extent) were our ALLIES, not our enemies. When we burned (electrically) the Rosenbergs for what was popularly called treason (the crime was espionage, not treason) that was wrong because they spied for an ALLY.

As ruthless a mass murderer of a Marxist as Stalin was, he was our ally. It is NOT a hanging offense to spy for an ally.

In order to peel off the good from the bad, the fight has to be closer in, wrestling sweat-to-sweat rather than spear chucking wildly from up the hill, otherwise what has happened is what happens. The poisonous vine gets inside the bark, and we get a rudderless self-doubting pretender or self-hater in command, we are (possibly) then sailed right into the arms of our true enemies.