I wrote this during my "still being nostalgic about my younger Antifa days" period, probably wouldn´t write like this today, but here you go anyways...
"The Communist" is the magazine of the Progressive Labor Party
(PLP or PL), a small but well-known Communist group in the United States. It
used to be one of the stronger groups on the American left, due to its
influence in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). That was around 1969.
Otherwise, the PLP is mostly known for its attack on sociobiologist Edward
Wilson at the 1978 convention of the AAAS. (The group which carried out the
attack, CAR or InCAR was a PLP front group.) Today, the PLP is much smaller, but
still makes propaganda for its home-grown, peculiar version of Maoism.
This issue of "The Communist" is dated Fall 1992 and is something of a guilty pleasure, due to its articles on the Boston busing struggle during the 1970's. In 1975, the PLP organized several marches, occupations, sit-ins and even swim-ins (!) in Boston to protest the local racists (ROAR), the police and the city politicians. PLP's actions had a distinctly anarchist flair, and I'm not sure if they *really* accomplished anything, except commotion and a few smashed Nazi skulls. Still, I admit I loved every minute of it. In my book, Nazis have no rights!
Another article of some interest is "Peru's Tarnished Path", about Sendero Luminoso in Peru, in which the PLP contrasts their own (ultra-leftist) version of Maoism with the more regular (?) version of the Senderistas. This issue also contain articles on the Balkan wars, Alabama Communists during the Great Depression, and the need to build the PLP.
And no, I'm not a supporter of this group (see my review of "The Communist", Fall 1991). That's why PL's magazine is such a GUILTY pleasure, LOL.
PS. Who vandalized Arthur Jensen's private research archives? Could it be...
This issue of "The Communist" is dated Fall 1992 and is something of a guilty pleasure, due to its articles on the Boston busing struggle during the 1970's. In 1975, the PLP organized several marches, occupations, sit-ins and even swim-ins (!) in Boston to protest the local racists (ROAR), the police and the city politicians. PLP's actions had a distinctly anarchist flair, and I'm not sure if they *really* accomplished anything, except commotion and a few smashed Nazi skulls. Still, I admit I loved every minute of it. In my book, Nazis have no rights!
Another article of some interest is "Peru's Tarnished Path", about Sendero Luminoso in Peru, in which the PLP contrasts their own (ultra-leftist) version of Maoism with the more regular (?) version of the Senderistas. This issue also contain articles on the Balkan wars, Alabama Communists during the Great Depression, and the need to build the PLP.
And no, I'm not a supporter of this group (see my review of "The Communist", Fall 1991). That's why PL's magazine is such a GUILTY pleasure, LOL.
PS. Who vandalized Arthur Jensen's private research archives? Could it be...
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