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This title examines the decision of American Communists to go underground during the 1950s' era of McCarthyism. U.S. Communists concluded that the repressive and conformist milieu of the Cold War and McCarthyism would lead to fascism. Expecting to be banned outright, the Party created a reserve of members whom the government could not find or arrest. Those selected left their friends and families, altered their names, moved away from their homes, and changed their occupations. Based on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, the author weaves personal accounts of the underground into historical perspective. This work will be useful to scholars of history, political science, and sociology and the growing body of readers in the history of U.S. Communism, labor history, the evolution of radical movements and the history of ideas.
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John Ness
reviewed Underground Communists in the McCarthy Period: A Family Memoir on September 25, 2010
Underground Communists in the McCarthy Period: A Family Memoir
They should have called this book "Cox and friends" because Gramsci barely appears thorough the different chapters but our friend Cox and his 'all theory is for someone and for some purpose' (or something in the similar tone) appears at every turn of the page. So much, that if you didn't like Cox you will hate his ideas after finishing with this book (even when they criticize his work).
It is not only that the title is misleading (it is actually about neo-gramscians, not about Gramsci, and it is, as said above, basically about one of them, Cox (I am trying to make his name appear as many times as it appears in the book; I like challenges). It is also that the book doesn't offer much, and what does offer, it Cox..., I mean, it offers this information in the very I-will-try-to-make-myself-as-difficult-to-understand-as-possible style. Do you like your paragraphs with lots of notes and unintelligible style? We have got you covered. Every time I find one of these books (normally non-fiction, Cox approved), I always remember the: if you can't explain it in a way that a five-year-old can understand, you are doing it wrong (and you don't understand it yourself; hello, Foucault). Here is the same. Cox.
So, to put an end to this review, some interesting ideas, difficult style, too much repetition, and little Gramsci. Modern Coxians and Coxied Emperors.
Cox!
4.5/10
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