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Kerry's Stalinist Slogan (Insight Magazine, May 24, 2004)

Insiders say John Kerry has settled on "Let America Be America Again" as the motto and theme of his presidential campaign. The line comes from a Langston Hughes poem Kerry quoted at an NAACP event in Kansas. Apparently the pedantic St. Paul's and Yale graduate didn't bother to note that it was written for an International Workers Order (IWO) pamphlet called A New Song. The IWO was an officially cited affiliate of the Communist Party, and Hughes was so committed a Stalinist that he formally endorsed the Bolshevik purges.

In what sense is endorsing the Stalinist purges any worse than endorsing the North Vietnamese takeover of the South?

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 24, 2004 9:11 PM