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1、InternationalLaborandWorkingClassHistoryNumber25,Spring1984,pp.66-75TheAmericanCommunistPartyinItsHeyday:ACaseofPrematureEurocommunism?NelsonLichtensteinCatholicUniversityofAmericaMauriceIsserman,WhichSideWereYouOn?:TheAmericanCommunistPartyDuringtheSecondWo
2、rldWar.(Middletown,Ct.:WesleyanUniversityPress,1982).HarveyA.Levenstein,Communism,Anticommunism,andtheCIO.(Westport,Ct.:GreenwoodPress,1981).Eachgenerationrewritesthehistoryofitseraasaguidetoaremoldedfuture.Innofieldhasthisbeenmoreself-consciouslythecasethan
3、inthatworkedoverbyhistoriansoftheAmericanleft.Littlemorethanadecadeago,forexample,youngscholarsfoundtheIndustrialWorkersoftheWorldnearlyirresistible.PerhapstherewassomethingaboutWobblyspontaneityandsocialiconoclasm,theirverypoliticalmarginality,thatdistantly
4、mirroredthepassionsandhopesgeneratedinthe1960s.Inthesedaysofindustrialdeclineandconservativedrift,theromanticWob-bliesarenotmuchinvogue.Thepossibilitiesopentotheleftseemmoreprosaic:haltthedeclineoftheunions,temperthearmsrace,beginareconstructionoftheoldliber
5、al-laboralliance.Utopianandrevolutionaryvisions,whetherof1917,1932or1968nowseemanachronistic,evenembarrassing,whileforeignmodelsofsocial-istreconstructionholdlittleinterest.NeitherMoscownorHavanabringsmuchinspiration,andonlythelongneglectedsocialdemocraticmo
6、vementsofWesternEurope—whetherintheirEurosocialistorEurocommunistforms—attractmuchexcitement.Itisoutofthisdecade'srathersoberpoliticallandscapethataremarkablypositivereevaluationoftheCommunistexperienceinAmericanlifehasemerged.Forherewasamovementwhichatitshe
7、ightinthe1930sand1940senrolledupwardsof80,000to100,000members,wontherespectofawidestrataofliberalsandprogressives,andperhapsmostimportantlymadeitsweightfeltinthenewindustrialunionsandonthebroadterrainofnationalpolitics.TwonewbooksbyHarveyLevensteinandMaurice
8、Issermanareparticularlysymptomaticofthisretro-spectivelyappreciative1980smood.Makinguseofextensivearchivalresources,includingtheheretoforeunopenedEarlBrowderpapers,bothvolumesarescho-larlybutnot
