The History of the American Left

After de stolonization and crusta's brutal invasion of hungary, communism in the us. Was evicerated. The official party, the american communist party, all but collapsed. By the late fifties, it was fairly straightforward for the adult,. the adult left, to explain to the student left that communism was bad and they should have nothing to do with it. Pretty straightforward case. Communism, at the time, meant the soviet union. But then, because god has a great sense of humor, that's when everything got a million times more complicated. And what this ended up meaning in practice was that America became the enemy of many much smaller, weaker count