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different but gene s approach was basically the same the communist party was emerging from a prolonged factional fight in which the all white leadership and predominantly white membership had been charged with racism in 1931 the comintern had intervened from moscow and the leadership headed by rebecca bunting and her husband were expelled their influence remained however and the issues were still being debated the buntings had rejected the primacy of the racial and national questions for south africa they opposed the comintern s goal for an independent native black republic with guarantees for the white minority they had argued this would favor a black race dictatorship that would turn the exploited whites into a subjected race the buntings claimed that not a national liberation struggle of the native black majority was the strategic goal but the establishment of socialism by the proletariat black and white as in the philippines gene devoted the first months in south africa to traveling asking questions then he applied himself to the problems still tearing the party apart he helped initiate methods of collective work to strengthen the ability of the black comrades newly placed into responsible positions of leadership he helped establish the concept that the party had to become in the first place the party of native black workers reflecting the black nation character of the country at the same time he called for an end to the practice of using administrative punitive expulsions against those whites still influenced by the buntings ideas he urged the need to win over vacillators he exploded the bombast of those white comrades who refused to work inside the white workers trade unions under the guise that they were militantly opposing white chauvinism white chauvinism is fought where it exists not in words from the outside gene countered he argued too against those comrades who refused to work in the reformist organizations white or black under the guise they were protecting the independence and purity of the party at the same time he combated tendencies to subordinate the party s policies to accommodation with the reformist leaders in the interest of unity peggy dennis the autobiography of an american communist a personal view of a political life 1925 1975 uncategorized communism history peggy dennis south africa the life of the expatriate 2 comments posted by nydwracu on july 17 2015 scene eugene dennis has been in moscow for a while and has begun to consider leaving the ussr to work for the communist cause in other countries the philippines it is a us colony and we have a social responsibility south africa so closely related to the negro question at home and china the key to the whole far east he sat on the edge of my bed his hands cupping his pipe bowl elbows resting on his knees you have a right to be angry i should have given you the choice but i was told that you could come even if you decided to go back when i leave i wanted these couple of months together you can go back or stay after i leave it s up to you but at least we re together now the admission of his love and need ordinarily would have satisfied me but i pressed on why so soon wouldn t a couple years here at the comintern be good and we d be together his words came slowly as he paced again as always now too he sought the precise words with which to convey his thoughts he said a short stay in moscow was beneficial exchanging ideas and experiences with comrades from other parties was helpful but a long stay the life of the expatriate is not for me it is not good for anyone peggy dennis the autobiography of an american communist a personal view of a political life 1925 1975 eugene dennis decided to leave he became the comintern s representative to the communist party of south africa and then of the philippines and then he went to shanghai after four years abroad he and peggy returned to america uncategorized peggy dennis a communist in mecca 4 comments posted by nydwracu on july 17 2015 scene peggy dennis a communist activist arrives in moscow on party orders to join her husband who had fled there months before also on party orders to escape a prison sentence in america our train slowly crossed the border onto soviet soil with face pressed against the window heart pounding i hugged tim tightly in my arms and my eyes blurred with tears high above the wooden arch through which our car moved proclaimed workers of the world unite i was in mecca when the uniformed border control with the red star insignia on their fur hats came to collect passports i barely resisted giving them the clenched fist salute i wanted to hand them my party identification a more fitting entry permit into the land of socialism reunion with gene awaited so eagerly was almost eclipsed by my excitement at being in moscow i wandered the streets at every opportunity every detail had special significance the broken cobblestoned sidewalks and boarded up empty stores symbols of a painful past red army platoons marching down the street lustily singing revolutionary songs symbol of a land where the people s army had triumphed i smiled broadly at every beshawled peasant woman shuffling by in her knee high shapeless stiff felt boots the valenki i was soon to wear i wanted to clasp the hand of each man and woman i passed i wanted to shout tovarich to all moscow six thousand miles from home i was home here everything was truly nahsh ours everyone was nahsh braht our brothers after the last two years the exhilaration at being one of the working class ruling majority was particularly gratifying being an outsider i sentimentalized the harsh realities of daily life life was tough and elemental that winter of 1931 each day was a struggle to survive personally economically politically stalin had declared we are fifty to one hundred years behind the advanced countries we must cover this distance in ten years or we shall be crushed the socialist countries which were to follow could afford a slower pace the first socialist state could not the first five year plan to rapidly industrialize a backward underdeveloped giant was being compressed into four years the rest of the world floundering in economic crisis scoffed at this mad dream even more unrealistic they said was moscow s insistence that socialism would achieve this miracle of industrial growth without private foreign capital investment there were no italian fiat plants in 1931 only the first soviet amo auto plant there were no u s banks with branch offices in moscow capital investment was squeezed out of a soviet people who for many years were ill housed ill clothed and ill fed building for the future yet even in those lean years there existed the concept of social benefits as an individual right free medical clinics child care centers in factories free education rest homes infinitesimally low rents these were available to all back in the states twenty million were out of work millions more were hungry and homeless social security was a revolutionary demand being fought for in the streets peggy dennis the autobiography of an american communist a personal view of a political life 1925 1975 private foreign capital investment is one matter private foreign capital support in the manner of olof aschberg is another speaking of olof aschberg peggy dennis isn t the only communist to have inherited the cause from her parents here s what aschberg s grandson is up to these days but that s beside the point read the excerpt closely take note of all the social dynamics at work aren t humans interesting as for her claim that she was one of the working class ruling majority she later writes exhilarated at living in this international milieu i was slow to realize that we were completely isolated from ordinary soviet life we did not even know any soviet persons except for boris and bob who lived in the luxe and worked in the comintern with gene all of the comrades living there and working at the comintern were divorced from soviet life we were living in moscow but were not a part of it no one could give me a plausible reason why this was so no one i knew seemed to really care that it was so boris and his wife musa had recently returned from comintern assignment in china and bob and his wife valerie had been to india the discussions in our room ranged from their experiences abroad to our asking them questions about soviet life but they were not typical soviet citizens and our isolation was not lessened by them upon our return to moscow in 1937 we could find no trace of them no one would or could tell us anything during my third return trip in 1941 i saw valerie walking towards me on gorky street i started to greet her warmly but she passed me with a slight flicker of recognition insisting upon answers from comrades i was told that bob had been executed and valerie only recently released from prison carefully stayed away from all foreign comrades i was told for her sake to leave her alone we never heard anything at all about boris and musa in the purges of the comintern in 1937 and 1938 the very international activity and foreign travel demanded by the comintern became the basis of charges of foreign agent that sent hundreds of soviet and european comintern workers to labor camps and firing squads uncategorized communism history humans gonna human peggy dennis russia twentieth century americanism 2 comments posted by nydwracu on july 17 2015 scene eugene dennis frank waldron a communist activist is arrested during a protest and brought to trial of the many arrested march 6 seventeen went on trial in april and for eleven days judge bogue in a state of bewilderment kept muttering from his bench incredible absolutely astonishing american civil liberties union attorney leo gallagher a deceptively mild looking grey haired wiry fighter exploded the first shock for the startled judge when he challenged the entire jury panel gallagher charged the defendants would have a better trial if the commissioner would stop passers by on the street and take them into court for jury service the judge spluttered at gene and party organizer carl sklar who were acting as their own attorneys you can t make communist speeches to prospective jurors you can t tell them there are different standards of law for the rich and the poor on any given day now some fifty people were either in jail in court or beaten by police on the outside physical and legal self defense became simultaneous weapons of the local unionization and unemployed struggles a delegated conference of local organizations set up a general self defense organization whose purpose was the physical protection and defense of all militant struggles organizations and demonstrations of the working class to protect them from the reactionary attacks of the fascists and the state apparatus on the legal front the international labor defense conducted orientation sessions throughout the city enabling arrested workers to defend themselves in court frank spector southern california head of that organization and one of the seventeen before judge bogue told the court when the laws are against the interests of the working class and the courts are essentially an instrument in the hands of the employer class we advise workers that the laws be violated and the court decisions be ignored in its summation the prosecution intimidated the jury if you will not convict them then you will show that you too are against our government gene told them a verdict of guilty will mean you approve the exploitation of the working class by the capitalist government it will mean you approve police brutality and that you agree with police commissioner thorpe that we ought to be deported but even if you put us in jail now you can t break our movement hundreds thousands of others will take our place and carry on the struggle until this system will be abolished and the dictatorship of the proletariat as in the soviet union will be established our comrades in the courtroom were no less startled than was judge bogue and the reporters to hear gene tell the jury it is because i love my country and the american people from which i spring that i fight today and will always fight in the interest of the people it is our country it is our bill of rights it is our american way of life that you would betray here today peggy dennis the autobiography of an american communist a personal view of a political life 1925 1975 the result the grand jury indicted seventeen t u u l trade union unity league and communist party activists on conspiracy to foment revolution during the cantaloupe season this was later changed to the more stylized charge suspicion of criminal syndicalism involving charges to overthrow the government on a number of separate counts that could total 42 years in prison for each defendant of the seventeen fourteen were arrested but the police could not find frank spector carl sklar and gene they had disappeared from sight after leaving the courtroom that april 14 spector sklar and gene hid in friendly strangers homes moving every few days to a new place they stayed in contact with activity and decision making processes through complicated courier systems we were all waiting for a higher party decision in new york as to whether they should or should not surrender to the valley arrest warrants the party voted to have spector and sklar surrender eugene dennis remained a fugitive under the alias tim ryan and the party eventually decided to have him flee to moscow his wife peggy joined him there later with their son although she had to fight her party organizer a new arrival from new york to be allowed to do so the organizer said we cannot handle this request routinely we would be guilty of rank male chauvinism if we agreed to transfer this leading young woman comrade merely so she may join her husband about this she wrote i had some heavy thinking to do i was uncomfortable with my party organizer s defense of me as a leading woman comrade the more i hassled with the feeling that something was wrong the more i disliked the context in which the question had been placed i felt like i was being subjected with praise to a subtle male chauvinism which rejected the possibility that a woman can be a wife and leading activist under the guise of upholding my rights i was being told i had to choose between being a housewife at the beck and call of her man or becoming the classic version of an unencumbered male all i knew was that i wanted to join him the framework for my activity would have to be found within that context always her parents disapproved uncategorized america communism history peggy dennis progressivism rss feed search for recent posts the soviet government s uniformly pro marriage position america s cultural offensive throughout the world 1955 an unusual vowel contrast the dravidian australian connection national ist security recent 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