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Article: The Cause That Failed: Communism in American Political Life.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 3, 1990
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Radosh teaches history at Queensborough Community College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is co-author of The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truth.
IT IS ONE of the great ironies of our age that, as Communism has I failed the world over (the seeds of rebellion having reached even the Soviet Union), opposition to Communism in the United States remains suspect. Any critical study of the role played by American Communists and fellow-travellers from the 1930s through the 1960s is seen as irrelevant and passe, as an intellectual form of "red-baiting." When Angela Davis speaks at a major university, she is referred to in the press only as a ...