Elia Kazan was known as a director, producer, writer and actor, and director Edward Dmytryk,....known in entertainment circles.
But they were courageous, and made headlines in politics, too.
1. "Fifty years of liberal propaganda people to thinking of Communist Party member as lovable idealists and the urge to fire them from their government jobs as an irrational anachronistic prejudice. Allowing card-carrying members of the Communist Party to handle classified material after the Alger Hiss case would be like encouraging al-Qaeda members to carry box cutters on airplanes after 9-11."
Coulter
2. Most of Moscow's devotees acceded to ' Omertà' and invoked the Fifth Amendment, against self-incrimination, before Congress. But not all. Famed Hollywood director Elia Kazan decided to testify fully and frankly, including 'naming names' before HUAC.
"I wanted to break open the secrecy... There was no way I could go along with their [the Communists'] crap that the CP was nothing but another political party, like the Republicans and the Democrats. I knew very well what it was, a thoroughly organized worldwide conspiracy."
Elia Kazan, "A Life," p. 464,459.
3. Any perusal revealed that the claim that the Communist Party was just another political perspective was easily seen by any who cared to look. It was just another false cover story. Historian Paul Kengor noted that in the early days, CPUSA leaders were "surprisingly open about publishing Moscow's instructions to them."
Kengor, " Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century," p. 521.
a. The Commintern, the Communist International, was founded in Moscow in March, 1919. Not far behind it, the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) was founded in Chicago in September, 1919. While the archives are rich with their literature, they are rarely studied, as most academic historians are on the left and have little interest in revealing or discussing the revelations or machinations therein. Further, Yeltsin had declassified many documents in the 1990s which proved that everything the anti-communists said, was true!
4. In 1950, CPUSA claims of kinship with all other American political parties, past and present, was eruditely debunked by Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, wherein he distinguishes between the Communist Party and all other political parties, noting that no other parties are secret, disciplined organizations. "The party is a secret conclave. Members are admitted only on acceptance as reliable and after indoctrination in its policies...Moreover, each pledges unconditional obedience to party authority..."
See NYTimes, May 21, 1950, "Justice Jackson on Communism in America." http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2003/ms003002.pdf
5. Due to Liberal acquiescence, the party line became accepted as truth.
This was the mantra: "There was no 'conspiracy' overseen and funded by Moscow to overthrow the USA. American Communists were just a bunch of harmless, idealistic and homespun 'progressives.' Freedom of conscience and all that. Of course they deserved to be left alone in peace and privacy (and secrecy). Have you no sense of decency???"
Diana West, "American Betrayal," p.222.
6. One must marvel at how this echoed the writings of Whittaker Chambers, in his book WITNESS that liberals are/were incapable of ever effectively fighting Communism because they did not see anything in Communism that was antithetical to their own beliefs. In short, Liberals are Communists and Communists are Liberals.
7. No clearer exposure of the scam can be found than that of a member of the Hollywood Ten, director Edward Dmytryk, who, later, wrote, The presumption that there is an immutable, unwritten law against informing is sheer nonsense, Dmytryk writes. What thousands of confused liberals have believed is that one must allow a seditious Party to destroy ones country rather than expose the men or women who are the Party. In other words, naming names is [considered] a greater crime than subversion. ONE OF THE ?MARTYRS? WILL APPLAUD | New York Post
To Liberals, informing on or about the Party is the ultimate crime. Dmytryk rightly rejects what he calls the Mafia Syndrome that commands silence at all costs.
America was truly lucky to have had a handful of brave souls who exposed those Americans who couldn't wait to see gulags, and the massacre of their fellow citizens.
But they were courageous, and made headlines in politics, too.
1. "Fifty years of liberal propaganda people to thinking of Communist Party member as lovable idealists and the urge to fire them from their government jobs as an irrational anachronistic prejudice. Allowing card-carrying members of the Communist Party to handle classified material after the Alger Hiss case would be like encouraging al-Qaeda members to carry box cutters on airplanes after 9-11."
Coulter
2. Most of Moscow's devotees acceded to ' Omertà' and invoked the Fifth Amendment, against self-incrimination, before Congress. But not all. Famed Hollywood director Elia Kazan decided to testify fully and frankly, including 'naming names' before HUAC.
"I wanted to break open the secrecy... There was no way I could go along with their [the Communists'] crap that the CP was nothing but another political party, like the Republicans and the Democrats. I knew very well what it was, a thoroughly organized worldwide conspiracy."
Elia Kazan, "A Life," p. 464,459.
3. Any perusal revealed that the claim that the Communist Party was just another political perspective was easily seen by any who cared to look. It was just another false cover story. Historian Paul Kengor noted that in the early days, CPUSA leaders were "surprisingly open about publishing Moscow's instructions to them."
Kengor, " Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century," p. 521.
a. The Commintern, the Communist International, was founded in Moscow in March, 1919. Not far behind it, the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) was founded in Chicago in September, 1919. While the archives are rich with their literature, they are rarely studied, as most academic historians are on the left and have little interest in revealing or discussing the revelations or machinations therein. Further, Yeltsin had declassified many documents in the 1990s which proved that everything the anti-communists said, was true!
4. In 1950, CPUSA claims of kinship with all other American political parties, past and present, was eruditely debunked by Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, wherein he distinguishes between the Communist Party and all other political parties, noting that no other parties are secret, disciplined organizations. "The party is a secret conclave. Members are admitted only on acceptance as reliable and after indoctrination in its policies...Moreover, each pledges unconditional obedience to party authority..."
See NYTimes, May 21, 1950, "Justice Jackson on Communism in America." http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2003/ms003002.pdf
5. Due to Liberal acquiescence, the party line became accepted as truth.
This was the mantra: "There was no 'conspiracy' overseen and funded by Moscow to overthrow the USA. American Communists were just a bunch of harmless, idealistic and homespun 'progressives.' Freedom of conscience and all that. Of course they deserved to be left alone in peace and privacy (and secrecy). Have you no sense of decency???"
Diana West, "American Betrayal," p.222.
6. One must marvel at how this echoed the writings of Whittaker Chambers, in his book WITNESS that liberals are/were incapable of ever effectively fighting Communism because they did not see anything in Communism that was antithetical to their own beliefs. In short, Liberals are Communists and Communists are Liberals.
7. No clearer exposure of the scam can be found than that of a member of the Hollywood Ten, director Edward Dmytryk, who, later, wrote, The presumption that there is an immutable, unwritten law against informing is sheer nonsense, Dmytryk writes. What thousands of confused liberals have believed is that one must allow a seditious Party to destroy ones country rather than expose the men or women who are the Party. In other words, naming names is [considered] a greater crime than subversion. ONE OF THE ?MARTYRS? WILL APPLAUD | New York Post
To Liberals, informing on or about the Party is the ultimate crime. Dmytryk rightly rejects what he calls the Mafia Syndrome that commands silence at all costs.
America was truly lucky to have had a handful of brave souls who exposed those Americans who couldn't wait to see gulags, and the massacre of their fellow citizens.
