Blind to anti-communism's function in the class and democratic struggle, Risen erases CPUSA history, presenting McCarthyism as a mere cultural phenomenon.
Williana Burroughs advanced the struggle for African American equality and women’s equality as a teacher, housing organizer, Communist candidate, and anti-imperialist Pan-Africanist.
Countless working class Jewish women like Clara Lemlich, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, and Pauline Newman have played important roles in U.S. labor and Communist Party history.
For those unfamiliar with fascism's distortions of the past, Stanley's book provides context for current U.S. politics, though fascism's economic basis is not much examined.
In putting forward our vision of socialism, we must make clear that the U.S. would not be discarding its past but building upon it.