by Robert Stacy McCain | July 31, 2010 9:37 pm
“Socialism basically said, hey, let’s have a kinder, gentler society. Let’s share things.”
— Howard Zinn, Madison, Wisconsin, 2009[1]
While we’re sharing things, how about we share the fact that Howard Zinn was a member of the Communist Party USA during the worst years of Stalinist repression[2]?
On July 30, 2010, the FBI released one file with three sections totaling 423 pages on Howard Zinn, a best selling radical historian, teacher, playwright, and political activist. . . .
In 1949, the FBI opened a domestic security investigation on Zinn (FBI File # 100-360217). The Bureau noted Zinn’s activities in what were called Communist Front Groups and received informant reports that Zinn was an active member of the CPUSA; Zinn denied ever being a member when he was questioned by agents in the 1950s.
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Read more of the fascinating story of Zinn’s years in the Communist Party and his association with key figures of the 1960s “New Left.”[4]
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