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I also am happy that we have this guy 'Lovestone' banned at least for a while: he seems to use the 'guilty by association' technique.
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Jay Lovestone 1897-1990 was briefly the leader of the American Communist Party in the 1920s, but he broke with Stalin and then spent the rest of his life fighting communism's global reach.
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Regarded by some as a hero of the early Cold War period, and working as a kind of labor foreign secretary, Lovestone pieced together an international network with the goal of building democratic, anticommunist unions throughout the world.
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In Ted Morgan's engrossing biography, "A Covert Life," we see Lovestone after World War II employing quasi-Bolshevik tactics to bar communists, then militantly opposed to the Marshall Plan, from gaining control of European labor and undermining American goals.
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I wonder if Mr. Lovestone considered the converse, namely whether democracy is possible if the state is controlled by unions.
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Lovestone's special mission: combating Soviet infiltration of organized labor.
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His organizing efforts in places like Kenya and Tunisia ended as noble failures, but Lovestone never wavered in his belief that unions free of state control are essential to democratic societies.
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In his brief review of "A Covert Life," Ted Morgan's 1999 biography of Jay Lovestone (1897-1990), Arch Puddington writes that, "Lovestone never wavered in his belief that unions free of state control are essential to democratic societies" (" Books: Five Best—May Day Reading: Books on Labor ," April 30).
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Jay Lovestone (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 103 comments) on Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007 at 11: 04: 55 AM
Dennis Kucinich: Standing Tall in the House as Cheney Impeachment Bill Advances 2007
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Jay Lovestone (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 103 comments) on Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007 at 11: 35: 41 AM
Dennis Kucinich: Standing Tall in the House as Cheney Impeachment Bill Advances 2007
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