Christian Concepts Daily ^ | May 7th, 2012 | Herbert Romerstein
The collapse of the Soviet Union had many effects but one was a split in the Communist Party USA. A number of Communist Party officials and activists, with the Soviet Union no longer there to offer instructions and funding, and disillusioned with the dictatorial rule of Party leader Gus Hall, left to form their own group, the Committees of Correspondence (CoC), also known as the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS)
Mitchell, referring to the collapse of the Soviet Union, which she called “the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe”, complained that it “left the United States in a near unchallenged position of world leadership.”
According to Mitchell, “Previously, the Soviet Union helped to provide a certain balance to rein in the crazies in this country. Now, that balance is no longer there. It is now up to us, the American people, to rein in our own crazies. The left must take a major responsibility in organizing this task.”
The targets of the Left, according to Mitchell, are, “The immigrant communities of Latinos, Caribbeans, Asians, Middle Easterners and Pacific Islanders, along with the communities of Native Americans and Mexican Americans, combined with the left’s traditional base in the African-American community and the labor movement, must be important bases for organizing. When combined with other energized sectors of the population – the women’s movement, the gay and lesbian movement, environmentalists and the differently abled – it is possible to constitute a new majority that can put forward progressive solutions to the country’s problems.”
(...)In 1999 the CoC sent each of its members the biographies of sixteen people recommended for the National Coordinating Committee. Two of them, Carl Davidson and Jay Schaffner, are now active in “Progressives for Obama”.
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