Fun fact: Viet Cong is a contraction of Việt Nam Cộng-sản (Vietnamese communist).

    • Vncredleader
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      3 years ago

      It's recorded in this fantastic history of the earliest American marxists. https://archive.org/details/HistoryWorkingmensPartyUS/page/n1/mode/2up?

        • Vncredleader
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          3 years ago

          no problem

          We destroyed the party over this, the party leaders ran important decisions among themselves and businessmen in English, utterly ignoring the base in Pittsburgh and New Jersey of German and Bohemian only speakers. Which is why he emphasizes being German, the immigrant steel and railworkers here suffered the deadly conditions, only to never get a say, only for labor aristocrats and liberal reformers to pretend to be on their behalf. It never ended, a generation or two later they did the same to my Italian relatives. Thank god for the union, but the dems they so loyally relied on made sure they could only ever at most get a safety net for my widowed grandmother. We will only avenge all these people by continuing to fight to put forth our own to lead, funny how they found the answer of the vanguard party this early

          The more things change.....