Middle Class Recruits to Communism in the 1930s: Family Members' Memories and Other Reflections

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  • @kethertomalkuthorchard1663
    @kethertomalkuthorchard1663 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh my gosh. My grandmother used to call my grandfather a buttonhole maker as an insult. I wish I could afford to have my voice heard but my history is not welcome. I’m the daughter of a Statistical Immigrant from Agua Prieta Sonora Mexico to Douglas Arizona during these years. He was interested in being literate. He is missing and likely killed and disposed of in prison in the mid 80s. I am uniquely qualified to speak out about the lasting and multigenerational struggles still so painful right now. I almost got to speak up and present my work in 2016 but a thug came into my home and brutalized me and left me with gas asphyxiation burns. I’m lucky to be alive but pretty scared to try and discuss the survival side. These folks are helpful to me. I see where the useful innocents from the middle and affluent university set cane from through the eyes of their wonderful next generation family members. I need these egghead brainiacs to share with me but they need to rise above the publishing and speaking tour bedazzlement and importance’s experts on their relatives published works. I can’t read so they help but they don’t know exactly what their parents and uncles and aunts sacrificed for, they don’t know what this smells like and they don’t know how gas feels when there’s nothing else to breath. They don’t know what it is like to know there is no use to even try to investigate or Dream there might be a grave for their dad’s or their mother’s lovers. They don’t listen to me. Jane doesn’t make anyone listen because she has a publishing agenda. I’m trying to hide from publishers. They lie about their historical records and inaccuracies in John Cornford’s posthumous life in print.

  • @MichaelFay63
    @MichaelFay63 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why are middle class people being highlighted. Trotsky pointed out that overseas Communist parties simply became" Guards" to protect, by this time,the purged & bureaucratised Soviet Union. Visiting the Soviet Union at the time. HG Wells described Stalin as having disciplined the Soviet CP to death. He had indeed murdered the Bolshevik party and having created the party apparatus and allowed the Bureaucracy full sway. It was a case of Stalin, Stalin uber alles.
    Stalin was of course teriffiyed of the working class and proceeded to totally de-politicise, and turn them into fetchers and carriers. The middle-classes could easily bamboozle the workers and were ideal servants who would kill for promotion and have that sense of being a cut above.
    The high Jewish content of the British CP and other parties in the world,would be put down to the absolute terror of anti -Semitism not only in Germany but in every land except the Soviet Union. Causing the fine intellect of the Jews to be subsumed by Stalinism and accept the idiocy of Socialism in one country, and never forgetting. No other country.
    A good show, I love to here from people describing the past,and being recorded for posterity. Lets here from the very small Trotskyist groups who were the only working class and middle class to prick this hideous Stalinist bubble. Who was in Trotsky's words, "The gravedigger of the revolution"!
    Forward to the 4th International. Up the workers! Up the Reds

    • @kethertomalkuthorchard1663
      @kethertomalkuthorchard1663 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Michael Fay because publishers tell these people that I and Adam Cornford are likely deceased and so they call Jane Bernal. We’re John Cornford’s niece and nephew. John is in a mass grave in Lopera Spain still and we are family of a victim of Franco’s regime. Why would anyone want our voices counted. Plus, we are struggling with publisher lock out, we can’t afford the travel. Jane’s in charge of a psychiatric division of the NHS. Check out her work for them. We can’t afford to be highlighted. I’m working on a solution. I’ll try to remember to get back if I have any way for you to help out with spreading the word about the predicaments you are so valuable to me for noticing and speaking your question on in this public forum. Thank you. Salud.

  • @kethertomalkuthorchard1663
    @kethertomalkuthorchard1663 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    A slum background? A French cliche reason to exist? I’m glad you got a ticket. I didn’t.