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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:38 AM Original message |
Poll question: Why didn't Joseph McCarthy accuse people of being Trotskyists? |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. Other: Trotskyist just isn't a lyrical name to use to villify someone. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
2. Other: Where are the "Kitteh" and the "I like to vote" options? |
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daleanime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
3. Even then... |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:46 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. +1 |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
4. he was afraid of the trotskyite-newsprint complex |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
6. What does this have to do with hating the British Royals & the wedding? |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
7. False question, it presumes "Trotskyism" was a force then. It wasn't. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
8. They didn't hold state power. |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
9. Other. He didn't know the difference between |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
10. Probably because the 4th International wasn't a threat. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:20 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. And people who said that were dead ass wrong. |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 02:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. a mind-blowingly ignorant and/or revealing statement. wow. that's pretty extreme shit right there. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 02:56 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. no surprise |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
11. Not scary enough. nt |
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Gidney N Cloyd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
13. Other: McCarthy adored Trotsky's Clodagh Rogers impression. |
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OutNow (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
14. McCarthy had secret crush |
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Puregonzo1188 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. How many other people besides you and me to you think |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
15. Because nobody knew what a Trotskyist was. |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 01:55 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. +1. People might have assumed Trotskyists were diarrhea sufferers. |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 02:41 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. My Other vote is related to that idea |
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Puregonzo1188 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
18. The first people prosecuted under the Smith Act were Trotskyists. |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Yep, the repression was there. BUT......... |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 02:54 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. they did, actually. (main) targets were communists, not marxists per se. |
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