In June of 1969 Lauren and I were married in her home town of Miami, Florida. The wedding went off without a hitch as did the week-long honeymoon in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and beyond that.
Leading me to the false assumption that everything was fine – even much better than just fine.
A short time later, we carted our personal belongings – no furniture – and drove to Cleveland, Ohio where I was slated to become the organizational secretary of the state's “Communist Party.”
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I have written about the so-called “Communist Party USA” (Insights Into The US Secret Political Police 2):
“In those early years, I was then totally naive about what the “CP” was really about. Who was there to teach me? No one, of course.
“For most of the time of my 'Party' membership, I was a full-time political organizer, mainly for the 'Party' itself. I was the organizer and secretary for the 'Party' in two regions considered important - Ohio and then Southern California - and a member of the 'Central Committee' from the fall of 1969 to the middle of 1977.
“I attended numerous, numerous meetings at all levels and personally knew all the 'Party's' national leaders and virtually all of the state or district leaders as well. I knew all of the 'Party' members in New England (where I first joined the 'Party'), in Ohio and Southern California (of course). I came into contact with many or even most of the 'Communist Party' members in New York, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Northern California and in other regions...
“When I was a member, the 'Communist Party USA' had about 2,000 – 3,000 members nationwide, although the 'Party' 'leaders' claimed about ten times that number...
“The yearly budget of the 'Party' ran into the several millions of dollars. When I was in the 'Party,' there were up to or more than 200 people – including journalists and people in subsidiary organizations - who were on the 'Party' payroll. They all lived well, and showed no signs of financial or other hardship.
“2,000 to 3,000 'Party' members is, of course, a very small percentage of the US population. But is would be a highly significant number – if composed of genuine revolutionaries. 200 or so full-time political organizers is by no means a trivial number...
“What were all the 'revolutionary' 'Party' members and full-time organizers doing? Having meetings after meetings, and meetings about meetings. Engaging in 'fund drives' for the 'Party' newspapers and occasionally fielding candidates to run for one or another public office. Efforts to build genuine mass struggle against poverty, racism and war were absent.
“Eventually it became evident that the 'Communist Party USA' was a completely sham organization, run by the vast US lie, spy, criminal, provocation, subversion and regime change, terror, drug-runnning, torture, war and mass murder apparatus. What is also important to note is that the FBI spent several millions of dollars yearly to sponsor this charade.
“And the 'Communist Party USA' was only one of many, many such bogus outfits.
“When I found it impossible to identify even a single honest communist in the 'Party,' I left. It can be argued that I personally did not know every last member of the 'Communist Party USA,' but that is hardly significant. If there were an honest communist or two or even a few somewhere in the US (very unlikely), that would have been of no political significance. Any such individual(s) had absolutely no influence on 'Party' activities or policies and would have been destroyed long ago.”
I have good reason to believe that there was not a single honest (non-fink) individual other than myself in the entire “Communist Party USA.” What I know for sure is that there was not a single other genuine communist in the entire venal batch of organizers and other full-timers in the “Party.”
Arnold Lockshin was the single exception. In the United States of America, Lockshin was one of a kind.
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For many years, the most prominent US “communist” was one Gus Hall, who gets a laudatory description in CIA-Wikipedia:
“Gus Hall (born Arvo Kustaa Halberg; October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader and chairman of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and its four-time U.S. presidential candidate. As a labor leader, Hall was closely associated with the so-called "Little Steel" Strike of 1937, an effort to unionize the nation's smaller, regional steel manufacturers. During the Second Red Scare, Hall was indicted under the Smith Act and was sentenced to eight years in prison. After his release, Hall led the CPUSA for over 40 years, often taking an orthodox Marxist–Leninist stance...
“When the Supreme Court upheld the Smith Act (June 4, 1951), Hall and three other men skipped bail and went underground. Hall's attempt to flee to Moscow failed when he was picked up in Mexico City on October 8, 1951. He was sentenced to three more years and eventually served over five and a half years in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.
“Hall... led the struggle to reclaim the legality of the Communist Party and... spoke of a "broad people's political movement"... Hall spoke regularly on campuses and talk shows as an advocate for socialism in the United States... He remained a prolific writer on current events...
“During the 1960s and 1970s, Hall also made frequent appearances on Soviet television, always supporting the position of the Soviet Communist Party and the Leonid Brezhnev regime.” (Gus Hall, Wikipedia)
When I was in the "Party," Hall was the General Secretary and not the chairman of the CPUSA. There is no evidence that Hall was a “labor leader.“ Hall was formally convicted under the Smith Act, but it is most likely he spent his “prison time” far away in a comfortable “safe house,” living well under an assumed name. There is no evidence that Hall “went underground” from his FBI caretakers, which would have been impossible.
I visited Hall in his spacious, split-level home in Yonkers (a suburb of New York City). He insisted in flying only first-class and had a resplendent life style. FBI stooge Gus Hall lived an easy, long life, like so many US imperialist lackeys hiring themselves out to be fake “communists” or “revolutionaries.”
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A phony and vicious “Black communist revolutionary”...
“If one writes a detailed and verbose history of the United States and the country's internal and external politics during the period 1967-1977, you will not be obliged to even mention the 'Communist Party USA.' The one apparent noteworthy exception in the entire period when I was active was the “Free Angela Davis” campaign. The phony campaign reached somewhat beyond the US, mostly in the socialist countries, but it had no impact on enhancing the CP or building people's struggles in America.
“Angela Davis was and still is a FBI-stooge, who helped organize a murderous provocation aimed at discrediting Black liberation activists in the US. She was eventually 'acquitted' and became a university professor and phony spokesperson for prisoners in the US. In the 2016 US presidential campaign, this 'revolutionary' (!) publicly supported arch-reactionary, warmonger and big-time thief Hillary Clinton.” (Dictatorship USA – Part 5)
“Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist in the 1960s working with the Communist Party USA, of which she was a member until 1991, and was involved briefly in the Black Panther Party...
“After allegedly purchasing firearms used in the 1970 armed take-over of a Marin County, California courtroom, in which four persons were killed, she was prosecuted for conspiracy. She was later acquitted of this charge.
“She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department. She is also a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department... Davis supported the governments of the Soviet Bloc for several decades. During the 1980s, she was twice a candidate for Vice President on the CPUSA ticket.” (Angelea Davis, Wikipedia)
Davis was/is a provocateur and FBI stooge. Note her free ride in the American university system, which is so common for US secret political police hirelings.
While in Cleveland and then not understanding who or what Davis actually was, I was very active in the “Free Angela Davis” campaign. Her brother Ben Davis, at the time a cornerback for the Cleveland Browns professional American football team, and his wife Sylvia willingly participated in this foul FBI charade.
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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».
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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com
Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!
ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...
Арнольд Локшин, политэмигрант из США
BANNED – ЗАПРЕЩЕН!!
ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили все мои посты и комментарии в Вконтакте!
… и в Макспарке!