tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900607157435934187.post1398702807258551799..comments2023-11-03T11:03:34.233-05:00Comments on Jefferson's Rebels: FBI Reveals Howard Zinn, Icon of the Left, Was A CommunistUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900607157435934187.post-84248505275757825532010-08-29T14:15:14.196-05:002010-08-29T14:15:14.196-05:00Zinn never made a secret of the fact that he "...Zinn never made a secret of the fact that he "cut his political teeth" in the yeasty leftist environment of New York City, and after being demobilized from the military where he served as a decorated fighter bomber pilot in the European theater. This included participating in the debates and polemics between socialists, anarchists, CPers and Trotskyists. If you know anything about the US left you'd know that a CPer ("Stalinist/Moscow Line) could never, ever show support for the arch-enemy Trotskyists of the SWP!! Zinn always defined his politics while at BU as "anarchist" in the spirit of Emma Goldman. He was totally eclectic in giving his support to anyone victimized for opposing a social system he considered grossly unjust. If he had been a CPer, he had broken with "the party" quite soon after joining. It's to his shame IMO that he supported Obama, just as he had supported Kerry over Nader in 2004.robertmontgomerynoreply@blogger.com