He despises those impractical Marxists who “panic and run, rationalizing that the system is going to collapse anyway of its own rot and corruption,” those who go “hippie or yippie, taking drugs, trying communes, anything to escape,” those who “went berserk… the Weathermen and their like.” He laughs at the college students who embrace Marcuse-ian philosophy while doing nothing, those who spend their time cribbing from the communist puppetmasters and wear Che T-shirts.25 He also knows that America’s openness provides communists the opportunity to destroy American values, which makes working from
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