Roger Baldwin
The first director of the ACLU. It is possible that he never joined the Communist Party as a member, although he states himself "I joined. I don’t regret being a part of the Communist tactic, which increased the effectiveness of a good cause. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the Communists wanted". He supported the Soviet Union and communism & socialism in all it's ugly forms. After refusing to comply with a draft notice, Baldwin deliberately violated the Selective Service Act, which resulted in a celebrated trial and a jail term of 1 year.
William Z. Foster
National Chairman of the Communist Party USA and a ACLU co-founder. This communist was famous for this 1932 quote: "The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body to forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on." He was the author of Toward Soviet America.
Norman Thomas
Presbyterian minister and radical socialist who advocated the total abolition of capitalism. he was also a eugenicist, wanting to stop reproduction of "undesirables. In other words just like Himmler and the SS. He ran as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party a total of 6 times.
Crystal Eastman
Not a valid communist but definitely a socialist, radical feminist, who wanted legalized prostitution. With Roger Baldwin she helped form the NCLB which grew into the American Civil Liberties Union, with Baldwin at the head and Eastman as attorney. Eastman is credited as a founding member of the ACLU, and with creating the First Feminist Congress, also the National Woman’s Peace Party. She was a antimilitarist, pacifist who wanted the USA to unilaterally disarm.
Helen Keller
Yes that is right, Helen Keller. Famous from the play and later films "The Miracle Worker". But anyhow she was an avid socialist and supported Eugene V. Debs in his campaigns for the presidency. It seems that Hollywood and government sponsored schools has done it again. How many of us really knew that she (Helen Keller) in the early 1920s, wrote and spoke flatteringly about both German variations of socialism, the national socialism of Adolf Hitler and international revolutionary socialism, or communism of Lenin/Stalin?
Elizabeth Flynn Gurley
A totally committed communist, she later became chairman of CPUSA. She joined the party in 1936 after the ACLU was formed, she had been a Socialist since 1906 before the ACLU was formed. She was arrested June 1951 and charged with violating the Alien Registration Act. She was given a state funeral in Red Square!
A. J. Muste
An odd man in that he was at first an ordained pastor, he voted for Eugene V. Debs in 1912. Went on to help form the CPLA. Later he became an avowed Marxist-Leninist. He and James Cannon of the Trotskyist movement, then merged his own political group with Cannon's, forming the Trotskyist Workers Party of America. . He later later became a Christian pacifist after a trip to Norway when he met with Leon Trotsky.
Harry F. Ward
Dazed and Confused should have been this mans moniker! Reverend Harry F. Ward and a lifetime communist. Come on people you know he also authored "Soviet Democracy" and "Soviet Spirit," two very pro-Communist books. How this man could claim Jesus as his King and at the same time hail Marx/Lenin/Stalin and communism, which seeks to destroy any form of faith except it's own faith in communism itself. He must surly have been either a Judas or a fool. |
