re: #123 SanFranciscoZionist

And here in the US, outright communists were sometimes deluded about what was going on in the USSR, very occasionally defenders even though they knew it, but most often were a much better sort, ideologically, than Stalinists and the ruling elite in the USSR. Many US communists were labor leaders fighting absolutely appalling conditions. That they achieved a lot of success in fighting back against corporate greed and cruelty actually helped forestall any possibility of Communist revolution here. Which counts as irony.