Posted on 08/08/2006 4:47:23 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Dorothy Healey, a onetime labor organizer, civil rights activist and Marxist radio commentator who was chairwoman of the Southern California district of the Communist Party USA from the late 1940s through the 1960s, has died. She was 91.
Healey, dubbed "the Red Queen of Los Angeles" by headline writers during her heyday, died Sunday of pneumonia in the Greater Washington Hebrew Home, said her son, Richard. She had been a resident of Washington, D.C., since 1983.
The diminutive Healey, who stood just under 5 feet tall and once wore a pendant that pictured a clenched fist raised as a symbol of solidarity and militancy, fought a lifelong battle against what she called the oppression of the middle class and minorities.
"She was a heartfelt revolutionary of her time," Donna Wilkinson, the widow of national civil liberties leader Frank Wilkinson, told The Times on Monday. "She was always so fiercely partisan for working people. Yes, of course, she cared about war and peace and women's issues, but she was always concerned about working people."
The daughter of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, Healey was born in Denver on Sept. 22, 1914. Her father was a traveling salesman, and the family moved from Denver to California when she was 6. Constantly on the move because of her father's work selling smoked meat and cheese, Healey attended 19 schools. Her father died when she was 16.
Healey, whose Socialist mother was a founding member of the Communist Party in America, joined the Young Communist League in 1928, when she was 14.
"I joined the Young Communist League out of a feeling of hate and love," she told an audience at Golden West College in Huntington Beach in 1977. "I hated the system that reduced all humans to a feeling of total helplessness . . .
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Sure, but I got around 100 million souls that involuntarily went ahead of her that I gotta pray for first. I'll get around sooner or later.
Well, she finally gets to meet Lenin and Stalin.
When someone comes along saying "I'm, doing this for the working man/people",, they sure as hell ain't. Bet on it.
Really! Anyone who thinks most newspapers are unbiased is crazy, and we know whose agenda they are advancing...
She's hand in hand, with old Gus Hall at last.
If there was ever a system that reduced people to total hopelessness, it is communism. No hope to ever make a better life for yourself. No hope for self reliance. No hope in an afterlife. No hope for anything period. Only mindless robotic existance in a state controlled "democratic" dictatorship.
Jihad is about "the struggle".
Mein Kampf is about "the struggle".
And leftist activism is about "the struggle".
It is a shared worldview, with eyes on the prize of making a uniform utopia.
Commies hated Aesop.
Another candidate for the California Women's Museum. ;-)
Does anyone know if she had sex with Chairman Mao?
"I joined the Young Communist League out of a feeling of hate and love,"
so long you commie!alling all worms ,its dinnertime
Prayers for her soul... she'll need 'em.
How come you never read this kind of obituary about fascists? The ideology is equally flawed and murderous.
Dorothy Healey told her operatives: Infiltrate infiltrate infiltrate: fraternities, schools, churches, etc.
Just like Saul Alinsky her student in these matters who taught Hillary well.
Yeah, she's outlasted old Communist thugs like Mao, Castro, Stalin, and Molotov.
Another one cheats the hangman's noose.
Death for all communists!!
It is nauseating to read such a maudlin paean for someone who defends a social-economic-political system that has enslaved and murdered millions of human beings.
So I guess that Godless Communist thing didn't work out so well.
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