Ex-Communists in the Party

Hyde talks about an interaction he'd had with another man who was a former Communist Party member, and like himself, had left the party. But still remembered the whole experience very warmly. Our conversation brought back very vivid to my own mind the extent of the dedication which had been common in the party in the days when we were both Communists together. You got up in the morning and as you shaved you were thinking of the jobs that you would do for Communism that day. Your brothers and sisters in this movement will put themselves on the line for you. They will go to jail rather than give you up. This is a very real, very powerful dynamic and it was very real in people's