This year’s New Year edition of Der Spiegel features an interesting piece titled, “Was Marx right after all?” Full of astute observations about the state of capitalism, it’s a piece symptomatic of the anxiety of the ruling class.
Speaking of people using knowledge of Marxism to swindle, I recently came across an article about a FBI lead Maoist sect in the CPUSA in the 60s and 70s that really fucked things up. They were called the Ad Hoc Committee.
As hyper-radical as the AHC came across, the force behind the program was an FBI Special Agent named Herbert K. Stallings. Stallings, in an internal FBI memo, is described as an “agent of high intelligence and tremendous imagination” whose “knowledge of Marxism-Leninism is broad and outstanding” (SAC Chicago, To FBI Director 1/22/1964). Under Stallings’s tutelage the Ad Hoc program continued for fifteen years, targeting not only the CPUSA, but the emergent New Left.
The feds’ handiwork:
Party members have resigned or stopped attending meetings or have joined left wing caucuses. The number in this category is unknown; however, there are six in a caucus headed by [REDACTED] out of the Railroad Club [Party Unit or Cell] alone… We feel that the total loss to the CP in expulsions, resignations, and those boycotting meetings could number approximately 25. (Freyman file 1/22/1964)
Speaking of people using knowledge of Marxism to swindle, I recently came across an article about a FBI lead Maoist sect in the CPUSA in the 60s and 70s that really fucked things up. They were called the Ad Hoc Committee.
Here’s the article.
Get a load of this bastard:
The feds’ handiwork:
Wow an actual villain if I ever saw one