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Every other intellectual and artist was a communist or socialist back then, but not in any way that seriously threatened the state. They all happily worked on t
by platinumrad 5mo ago
Every other intellectual and artist was a communist or socialist back then, but not in any way that seriously threatened the state. They all happily worked on the bomb, after all.
- LAC-Tech 5mo agoI don't claim to be an expert on this case. But I can tell when things are being omitted or glossed over.
- xbar 5mo agoIt does not detail those facts. I gloss over them in my reading of the article because I think the topic is been well covered elsewhere. For example, the Oppenheimer movie did a fair job of depicting the communist party activities among intellectuals in the late 1930s. The fact that those activities led to a thing called McCarthism in the early 1950s is pretty well documented. Imprisoning Qian for 5 years for a meeting in the late 1930s after his contributions to the war effort was very Red Scare consistent.
- LAC-Tech 5mo agoThe US literally had a communist agent at Yalta who co-founded the UN. To dismiss this whole period as just a "Red Scare" is kind of ridiculous considering how much actual communist infiltration there was. We won't even talk about FDR's diplomat travelling to the USSR and giving Stalin a kiss in the 30s...
- mcmoor 5mo agoI mean there's a reason why USSR got to develop nuclear bomb so quickly.