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- Feb 10, 2015
This is all pretty interesting. Do you have a book recommendation for this, or some more information specifically on those soviet archives that show the CPUSA's involvement in being informants/conspirators?Yup. I see so many aging former liberals and centrists equate cancel culture to McCarthyism, and it's a false equivalency.
Most of McCarthyism (both what McCarthy and the HUAC actually did AND the Hollywood blacklists, which get pinned on McCarthy even though they were a separate thing) was focused on going after people who were members of the US Communist Party, which was directly aligned with the Soviets, or were otherwise doing work for the Soviet Union. Literal agents of a hostile foreign power. And in a vast majority of those cases, they were proven to be completely correct when the Soviet archives were opened.
So they weren't just guilty of differing opinions. They were literally spreading enemy propaganda, and in some cases they were even being paid or given other incentives or resources to do so. They also tried to pressure other members of Hollywood into conforming their works to their views, something Walt Disney experienced personally, which is why he testified before the HUAC, something for which he's baselessly smeared to this day (whatever you may think of (((the tribe))) assertions that Disney was an antisemite are nonsense).
Meanwhile, the public narrative of the so-called "Red Scare" has largely been shaped by famous showbiz commies and fellow travelers like Arthur Miller, who were mad about their buddies getting exposed. That Miller's "The Crucible" is still used in school to teach kids about the "Red Scare" is ridiculous once you realize that it's using false accusations (of witchcraft) as a metaphor for accusations that have been proven many times over to be true (the Hollywood Eight were registered members of the Communist Party and were using their positions in Hollywood to spread communist propaganda). Hell, Arthur Miller himself REFUSED to rewrite movie scripts to show communists as villains or have "pro-America" messages.







