re: #123 tradewind

Helen Keller was certainly a miraculously inspiring woman, and she was also a self-proclaimed Marxist and socialist. She campaigned and voted for Eugene Debs in every election, and wrote several essays on the subject.
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In a forward to a book of poems by Giovenetti, she wrote this:

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Sigh. I know to you the word “socialist” connotes everything horrible in the world, but at the beginning of the last century, when Helen Keller declared herself a “socialist,” the term did not have anywhere near the negative connotation it has today. There were a lot of highly respected intellectuals in America and the rest of the world who read Marx and agreed with his ideas.

In other words, when people like Glenn Beck smear Helen Keller, they’re doing it in an extremely dishonest and historically ignorant way.