Friday Night Watch Party | Reds
Summary
➡ This text talks about the political tension in Russia during the Bolshevik revolution. People are unhappy with the current leader, Karensky, and are waiting to see what the Bolsheviks will do. The leaders of the Bolsheviks, Lenin and Trotsky, have different styles but both are influential. The text also mentions the impact of the revolution on other countries, including the United States, and the fear of a similar revolution happening there.
➡ This text is about a group of people who are fighting for their beliefs and trying to make changes in their society. They are dealing with issues like deportation, communism, and worker’s rights. They are also facing opposition from the government and their own party. Despite the challenges, they remain determined to continue their fight for justice and equality.
➡ A group of people, unhappy with their current leadership, decide to form their own political party called the Communist Labor Party of America. They plan to send a representative, Jack Reid, to Moscow to gain recognition for their party. However, there’s disagreement and tension within the group, especially between Jack and his wife, Louise. Despite the challenges, they remain committed to their cause, even as they face potential arrest.
➡ This text is about a man who is deeply involved in political activities during a time of revolution. He is in Russia, but he is desperate to return to his family in the United States. Despite his important role in the revolution, his personal responsibilities weigh heavily on him. However, due to the political and military situation, leaving Russia is extremely difficult and dangerous.
➡ The text talks about a group of people struggling with transportation and communication issues due to enemy attacks. They discuss political policies, personal relationships, and the hardships of revolution. The text also mentions the challenges of language barriers in international meetings and the harsh realities of a revolution, including starvation and suppression of freedom. Lastly, it touches on the American oil companies’ attempts to monopolize oil and the promise of independence for the Filipinos.
➡ The text is a complex conversation about personal beliefs, political ideologies, and the role of media. It discusses the tension between individuality and collective action, and the potential for manipulation in translation. It also touches on the influence of communism in Hollywood and the United States, and the speaker’s personal disdain for it. The speaker ends by planning to discuss Martin Luther King Jr.’s alleged communist ties on the upcoming holiday.
➡ The speaker suspects that someone was killed due to doubts about communism, and plans to discuss this further next week. They also mention a short performance they’ll do on Martin Luther King Day. They hope to see their audience over the weekend, but if not, they’ll definitely meet on Monday. They wish everyone a good night and a great weekend.
Transcript
I’m sorry. I do not know what happened, and I hope everybody finds it. It’s a little slow for people to be. People aren’t coming in yet, but there you are. Hello, yarn. Sorry about that. I promise I did everything right three times. So I do not know what happened. I cannot give you a good response as to what happened. But you know what? I’m going to go ahead and hit play because nobody wants to hear me talk for a minute and a half blabbering on.
You all came to watch the movie, so I’m going to go ahead and hit play. And people will find it. People will find it. So again, apologies for the hiccups. So let’s get in there and watch the movie. Sorry, Safari. I do not know. You’re the one that suggested this. No, it’s not bad. I don’t think anything to do with that. But on the back end of how I connect the video to the software that I use to stream it was not connecting for some od reason.
It showed me live twice, but the connection was not being made to rumble. I have no idea what happened there. So, anyhow, we’re live and time to watch the movie. So let’s get her done. You all been fired. I’ve been fired. Hell, I’ll drink to it. Imagine, 65 million go to war, right? 10 million die. 10 million become orphans. 20 million become maimed, crippled or wounded. You had catastrophe in Europe.
You had a holocaust in Europe. You had a desire for change. Who can stop them when there was such a revolutionary sentiment? Who could shop? And you say, no. I think I’m gonna have to get a new cipher. What are you look fine. Are you all right now? Oh, God, yes. Nobody needs two kidneys. Second one’s just for show. Sorry. Very good time. They’re moving me to another communication center.
I’m just not going to be able to talk to you right now. Just go out here for a second. Look, I’m on my way to Russia. Oh, really? Have you enlisted? Very funny. I know you’re doing work here. That’s good, because I read the ambulance piece and I thought that was good. Thank you. And I know you’re working on your book, and I know how important that is to you, but you got to have enough sense, if you’re trying to build up your reputation as a journalist, to be in the right place at the right time.
I appreciate your. Well, the place to be now is Russia. Oh, thank you. I’ll remember that. Louise, it’s chaos. It can’t last. They’re in their third provisional government in six months. Do you know what that means? It means there might be another revolution. The workers are deserting the factories, the army is deserting the battlefronts. The exiles are all coming back. The Jews, the anarchists, the socialists, all of them are going back.
Only this time, it might be the real thing. And if they have a real workers revolution in Russia, they’d have one in Germany. And if they had one in Germany, it could happen all over the world, Louise. That’d be the end of the war. You don’t have to tell me what’s happening in Russia. I read the papers. Well, come with me as a colleague. I’m not talking about anything else.
Come with me as a colleague. You ought to be in petrograph. Oh, yeah? Well, that’s what you said about New York. I was right about. No. I have work. It is important. But it’s not as important as what you could be doing in Russia. I want to work together as partners. I don’t want a partner. And if I wanted to go to Russia, I’d go alone. I wouldn’t need you to take me.
Louise, Russia is not the safest place in the world for a woman to be alone. You may be a hell of a journalist, but that doesn’t mean wasted your money, Jack. I don’t want it. Change the day. Go by yourself. You can use it whenever you want. Keep up the good work, dad. Good luck. Yeah, you, too. Taxi waiting. Miss you, Joe will. Fine. Are you going to Petrogra, too? Yeah.
Wonderful. Great things are happening. Are you traveling by yourself? I think I am. Well, I’ll switch. We met in Chicago. Boy, oh, boy, were you a speaker. You don’t remember me? Well, it’s not that. Maybe it’s the hat. My hat? Yeah, maybe I just don’t recognize you in this particular hat. Oh, then I am a revolutionary returning in disguise. Well, comes the revolution, I’ll buy you a new hat.
I see you studying Russian? I’m trying. No, I mean, ask me anything you want in Russian. Thank you. I’ll keep that in mind. Here’s the thing. Be a goddamn fool not to take you up on this offer. So here’s what I want. I want to sign my own name to my own stories, and I don’t want to use a double byline. I want to be responsible for my own time and my own actions.
I want to be referred to as Ms. Bryant and not Mrs. Reed. And I want to keep an account of every cent we spend so that I can pay you back. Now, I assume you know that I’m not going to sleep with you, so just don’t confuse the issue by bringing it up. That’s it. Fine. Good. You like salami? He says, wait a minute, I have to go back.
I forgot teeth on the table. He says, hell with your teeth. What do you think they are bombarded with sandwiches. Postly? Revolution, revolution. After the revolution, you’ll buy me a new hat. Thank you very much. I’ll keep you very worried. By the way, did you hear this one? It means I don’t smoke. Okay, Mojno Lee, are you one of the family? She said, no, that’s why I’m crying.
There’s a foreman of a logging camp. He’s trying to hire a crew, and he goes down a long line of very big men, and he gets to a little man in the back. He says, who the hell are you? What are you doing here? Don’t you know that I need men who can chop down dozens of trees a day? Where the hell have you ever worked before? And the little man says, well, I worked in the Sahara forest.
The foreman says, you mean the Sahara desert? And the little man says, yes, sure. Now, a woman knocks at the door, I didn’t tell you that. Says, my husband just died. I want to sell his jacket. Says, what’s the matter with your pants? I says, then I will pranita praniti Benayaraya Krishna weeks. And he’s not going to fight anymore. But don’t think he’s afraid. There are many Bolsheviks in the army, and the Bolsheviks will stop the world school.
Katibilian. He’s 14 years old. My God. Come on. Communists obviously wanted peace, rightly so. The country was completely unable to sustain a war. There was treason and there was corruption. There was everything under the sun. But certainly, there was certainly no possibility of conducting a war. Karensky was anxious to conduct it produced some battalions of women who were going to go and fight. What the hell are you doing here? You have someone to meet you? No.
What luck. I am here. Accommodation? No. Good luck. No problem. Follow me. A lot of people had an idea that utopia was growing up and I could not blame them for being pro Bolshevik. But I wasn’t. The person who was awfully ignorant about Russia was Beatrice Webb. Yes. She didn’t know a thing. Do not be misled by the quiet. And the streets underneath is great. How much time has the currency government got left? Any day now.
Fantastic, isn’t it? A quiet street. And yet you’re in the heart of Petrograd. Give him four roubles, Jack. Lois. Lucky for you I’m here. Thanks again. Only one bed. That’s a double. Single. That’s single. This is where I’ll. For me, I can just. I don’t mind this at all. And there is still another line for cards in which they’ll get the boots in two, three months. Did we have to get rid of the tsar to stand the knife of bread? What does that mean? Oh, Karenski means Karensky and the Bolsheviki means Bolsheviks.
I think it’s an insurrection by the Bolsheviks against the Karensky government and the somietsky ways. I’m not that fluent in Russian. Look, if they buy this, they’re going to cut you down to 400 words, aren’t they? That starts out like you got 5000. Where would you cut? I’d lose this. I’d lose this. But what’s your lead? Well, I know what you think. You think the strong man line.
Well, I just don’t know if you’re going to take anybody’s breath away with that for a lead. You’re right. It’s too long. It’s too general. And the strong man line is the best lead. You’ve been right about something else, too. The Bolsheviks will take Russia out of the war. Good night. In the streets, the talk is of peace and bread, neither of which Karinsky has. Everybody knows that something is going to happen, but nobody knows just what.
I’m sorry, I don’t speak Russian. I’m english. Petrograd does not sleep at night. The arguments grow louder. Crowds. Nobody is satisfied with Karensky. The far right wants a strong man. The far left wants peace. Everyone waits to see what the Bolsheviks want. It is not easy to write fairly about the Bolshevik leader, Leonard. He is absorbed, cold and patient of interruptions. You had a trial line here. I never had a trial line at the end.
You’re right. What I don’t understand is why did you take out the piece about the gunshot? It was very good. It is good, isn’t it? Yeah. Put it back in for me. Mr. Zenovia, do you still feel that the timing is wrong for a bolshevik interaction? I interviewed Zenoviev at Smolni. He had been in hiding with Lenin. His style is still that of a man in hiding. We heard Trotsky speak at Smolni.
If Lenin represents thought, Trotsky represents action. He is essentially an agitator. Small knee was packed. At one point, someone on the platform asked the comrades not to smoke, and everybody, including the smokers, took up the cry, don’t smoke, comrades. And then they went on. At one point Trotsky said, we are trying to avoid insurrection, but if the Karinsky government attacks us, we shall answer blow by blow. The audience broke into wild cheers.
Lenin is a strange popular leader, a leader purely by virtue of intellect. Colorless, humorless, uncompromising. He seems to have none of Trotsky’s force of personality or his gift for phrase making. And yet it is Lenin who is the architect. Karensky’s some socialist. The winter palace of the Tsar, where Karinsky’s government now holds office, is vast. And it’s quiet in the winter palace. There’s no sign here of the strikes and lockouts that convulse Moscow and Odessa.
No evidence the transportation is paralyzed, that the army is starving. And in the big cities there is no. Karinsky is full of old world manners and charm, totally unlike Lenin. Provisional government will last, Karinsky said during the interview. In spite of the Bolsheviks, he seemed bitter, defensive. 900,000 men deserted since January, the first 14% of the russian army. I’m sort of braising the cabbage because thought it’d be a nice change.
You know that house where Reese Williams is stand? Evidently the banker’s daughter came home hysterics the other night to some woman’s streetcar conductor, called her comrade. So after dinner they all voted. They preferred the Germans to the Bolsheviks by ten to one. Anyway, the social revolutionaries asked the british ambassador to please not mention their visits because they were already considered too far to the right. And you know, it’s the same group of people he couldn’t even see a year ago because they were too far to the left.
And, oh, Manny Kamroff says that Charlie Chaplin will be. Thanks for bringing me here. Tell him he doesn’t know how many workers in England and France and America against the war. You lived in New York. Tell him that you are right, America. Thank you. Tell them about your american workers. No, I can’t speak here. I don’t have any credentials. Speak here. Credentials? What credentials? Everyone has credentials here.
Presently ask you to speak, Pete. I can’t. Chini Buddha. They’re waiting for your example. They’re waiting for your leadership. If you refuse to support the capitalist war machine, they will follow your example. And if the workers of the world stand together, the war can be stopped. You and will join you and revolution on previous, ma’am. Previous at the beginning love your Lord falling Jesus it all this way.
I want you and Jesus dark body every day on every then comrades, come rally and the last fight let us face the international unites the human race. That’s how it goes. It’s confiscated. I’ll take it with me to Washington on Wednesday. Whose authority? The authority of the attorney general. All right, pack it up. Attorney general. Attorney general of the United States. It’s upside down. Louise. How are you? Sorry.
God, whatever you’ve been doing, you ought to bottle it. Oh, thank you. Oh, he’s going to write a great bookmax. And I’m going to lecture while he’s doing it so we can have something to live on. And he’s going to write wherever I’m lecturing. And then we’re going to go back to Croton and he’s going to help me edit my collection of articles on women in the revolution.
And then we’re going to help edit each other’s books. No more separation. We’ve really promised each other, Max. We’re really going to get down to living our own lives. So moving. God, Max, you should have been there. Well, took my notes. Every goddamn note I have for my book. They do that. Welcome home. Let’s go. Come on. Come on. We’ll get your notes back to you. Write your book.
A lot’s been happening. Now, what the hell is going on here, Jack, I understand you and Louise have decided to be happy. It’s a very difficult situation for a country who is conducting a war when one of its allies has a revolution and the government is changed. The thing that made the furor was that the Russians withdrew and we lost an ally. We thought the Russians had gone back on us.
The kosovic revolution at the time was the most single striking event in the history of the times of the whole era. The complete transformation of russian society and the taking over by the peasants and the workers of the machinery of the state had never happened before in history. You’re a grand old flag. You’re a high fly and flag and forever and ever may you wave. You’re the emblem of the land I love the home of the free and the brave.
Every heart beats true for the red, white and blue where there’s never a boast or brag should all the crendents be forgot keep your eye on the grand old flag over there is not the 1918 over there, over there send the word, send the word over there that the Yanks are coming. You know that. But the other one was after grand old flag was all before was I’m a Yankee doodle dandy I’m a Yankee doodle dandy Yankee doodle leave nigh with few of my uncle Sam born on the 1 July I’ve got a Yankee doodle sweetheart she’s my Yankee doodle joy Yankee doodle went to London just to ride the ponies I am the Yankee doodle boy.
How’s the big head? Do you believe in God? I beg your pardon? It’s a simple question, Ms. Bryant. Now do you want me to repeat it? I’m sorry. For a moment I thought you asked me if I believe there’s a God. That is precisely what I asked. I see. Well, I have no way of knowing. Are you a Christian? I was Christian in the Catholic Church. Well, are you christian now? I suppose I am.
Do you believe in our Lord Jesus Christ? I believe in the teachings of Christ. Am I being tried for witchcraft? Ms. Bryant, tell me, are there no decent, God fearing christians among the Bolsheviks? Does one have to be God fearing and christian to be decent? Senator, the Bolsheviks believe that it’s religion, particularly Christianity, that’s kept the russian people back for so many centuries. If any of you’d ever been to Russia and seen the peasants, you might think they had a point.
On the subject of decency, senator, the Bolsheviks took power with the slogan, an end to the war. Within six months, they made good their promise to the russian people. Now, the present president of the United States of America went to this country in 1916 on a no war ticket. Within six months, he’d taken us into the war and 115,000 young Americans didn’t come back. That’s how decent, God fearing christians behave.
Give me atheists anytime. By the way, Senator Olman, then Russia women have the vote, which is more than you can say for this country. Do you advocate a soviet government for this country? No. In this country I don’t think it would work. In other words, you mean they got scared? They got scared or we got scared? No, we didn’t get scared. They were afraid that the unions was growing strength, a radical movement in America.
They were scared? Oh, sure. The Americans, they were frightened to death by it. You know, that it could occur here. Sure. Everybody was in mortal dread of the government descending on them. The FBI or whatever it was. Don’t you know? We had to expose them. And once they told american people what communism was. People won’t have nothing to do with the communism now. They know what it is.
But then they didn’t know it was a new thing. Public opinion was solidly against anyone who had a good word for the russian revolution. But Louise was always communicating what she had experienced. I brought blankets here and heavy cove here. Jason Sandborne. Thank you, Jack. Everyone else brought me hats. And Louise sends you her best. And, Miss Scott. Thank you. I’m afraid your time is up. Well, we’re going to keep fighting.
Will you tell Max I’d like a picture of myself in the magazine? And under it, I would like the words, deported in 1919. The government of the most powerful country in the world is afraid of this woman. We’re going to get you back, eg. The revolution needs you. We’re going to get you back, comrade. We’re not leaving the revolution in Russia. I’ll be joining it. I urge the deportation of all alien communists.
All alien communists, I said. Bad enough having the communists with us, but to have alien communists who are not citizens, denouncing our former government, our republic, and everything else, they should be deported. And I led a big fight on that for a long while. It wasn’t a very healthy atmosphere. So when John Reed came along, he was a voice of what I love. He was able to go into the most controversial subject of all, communism.
Vultureism. He was considered one of the rare persons who could do a thing like that. He knew he was on the threshold of history, and he wrote it that way. Just touch of this. Jack, I’m back. I’m in here, honey. I talked to Edmund and Alfred today at Liverite. What a day it turned out. Honey, what are you doing in there? Is everything okay? Can I help? No.
Sure? Smells good. What is it, honey? What did Edmund have to say? He said in a few weeks, the steel workers will strike. He thinks at least 200,000 of them and maybe as many as 300,000, but he doesn’t think there’s any stopping in this time. Yeah, that’s good. Still thinking about doing a piece on it? I am. Well, I can’t really talk now, but. What does he say the next step is? Evidently the federal government’s saying the steel organizers are red.
So what they’re doing is forming a bureau of investigations, is to look into subversive activity. And, you know, with all this talk about the leadership of the AFL being in cahoots with the steel trust. Alfred asked me if I was still going to do the piece on the IWW. So I said, alfred, for the moment, I don’t want to go any further away than New Jersey. Really? Oh, that’s good.
That’s good. Yeah, it is good. Sit down. I’ll just be a minute. Jack, what are you doing? How’d you leave it with Edmund? He’s going to read the piece on down. Sit down and close your eyes. Really? Thank God. I was going to plumb out here, but I got them. Things flamb themselves in the pan. He was certainly the main inspiration in the development of a revolutionary movement through his history of ten days that shook the world.
Ten days that shook the world was, of course, this masterpiece. He was there when bolshevik revolution took place, and his was the best report of it. Max Eastman had the story that John Reed came down, tussled hair, all said he was writing a book and not to disturb him for ten days. And that became ten days that shook the world. Supposedly, he was an enormous success, and this success actually changed his whole life, I think because he found out there was something that he could do well, do practically better than anyone else.
Comrades, we have made a great stride forward in our program to capture the socialist party for revolution. The time of right wing domination of the party has ended. They have fallen before the shining example of a revolutionary Russia. Like so many bowling paints, we have done better than we could have dreamed. The left wingers won twelve of the 15 seats under socialist party executive, including myself, Edmund McAlpine.
And Jackie took a tremendous jump forward from there on. He became a revolutionist on the worker’s side. No more illusions about people like Wilson. We all have problems. You can’t escape having problems, don’t you know? But to take on the problem of all humanity, to save all humanity. My God, that was too big, even for Jesus Christ. Don’t you know he got himself crucified? How the hell do we expect to do those things? Louise, is that you? Hello, Harry.
Well, I haven’t seen you in a long time. That’s right. Is this thing going to last all day? At night? We’ve been kicked out. Kicked out of what? The socialist party. Wait, who got kicked out? Everybody in that room. The executive committee kicked us all out. The whole left wing? That’s right. They nullified the election. Can they do that? They’ve done it. We’re the majority. We have the vote.
We weren’t expelled by the membership. We were expelled by the executive. And you’re talking about doing exactly what the executive committee wants us to do. Give the party back to him. Without a fight? Yes. You can’t go. Damn it, Louie. The social party is our own party membership and we can’t be expelled by the executive. It’s an illegal act, and if we fight it at the convention, we’ll win.
Why do we have to fight? What do you mean, why do we have to fight? Or what do we stay in a party in which we must win control from the minority not once, but twice? Well, what is it, Louie? You mean if we have to fight for what we deserve, into hell with it. Is that your idea? Revolution? I’d like to. My idea of revolution is not a revolution.
Oh, no? And my idea of exoscious party is not a debating society. It is a party of can give him is go to that convention and take control of the party. No. Liked to draft manifesto. He’s a bit nervous about the social patriot client. Tactically, he’s not in. Eddie. What about Levine? Eddie? Yeah. What did Levine say? He never showed. I waited over an hour. Levine didn’t show.
That doesn’t sound like Levine. Sure it does. Where were you meeting? Casey’s. Now, that surprises me. That really surprises me. I could have missed him. It was really busy in there. You could have missed him. What’s that supposed to mean? I was late. How late? 40, 45 minutes. Norris started spitting up blood again this morning. I had to take it to the clinic and I had to wait for my mother to come and pick up the kid.
You’re 45 minutes late. Yeah, I thought I could make it. I really did. All right, we got to get in touch with the guy. How do we do it? He’s on his way to Chicago. That’s one of the reasons I thought he would still be there. Wait a minute. You thought it’d still be there? Yeah. Who asked for the meeting? Who asked for the meeting? Who asked for the meeting? Did Levine want the meeting? Yeah, I thought he wanted it.
Did he call us? No, we called him. Then why would he wait? We wanted the meeting. I’m sorry. Well, why didn’t you call one of us and get somebody to take your place? Because I thought I could make it. I mean, I thought the man would still be there. You thought? Try not to think too much, Eddie. Not when your comrades are dependent. Be sure. All right, look, we have a contact for Levine in Chicago.
Let’s go. Singapore. Do you have a number button? Look here. They might work better if you put something in your stomach, besides coffee. You’re a little hard on Eddie, aren’t you? Under the circumstances, my sympathy is going to help Eddie’s wife. I help Betty. Listen to me. Building a party will help Eddie. One definite. Yeah. 4812. You know, I think we all believe in the same things, but with us, it’s more or less our good intentions.
And with Jack, it’s a religion. Our old friend Jack’s getting serious on us. Okay. Hey, Frank. How are you? How are you? What’s happening? No one’s admitted without a red card. That’s the order of the executive. Well, I’m on the executive. So is he. So is he. No one’s admitted without a red card. Well, where we get the red card, we’ll have to take that up with the credentials committee.
And where’s the credentials committee? I don’t know. I don’t think he wants us to go in there. Well, a way to take the hall is to take the hall. Okay, let’s go. Let’s go. Come on. This way. To propose the agenda, I would like to read a message from the credentials committee to the floor. May we please have order back there? In the back of the hall, could we have Sergeant Arams? Will you see what’s going on? Ladies and gentlemen, it seems we have a group of intruders who are trying to take over this conference.
We’re not going to let them. Now, please sit down. I need these aisles clear. Spartanox, I must have these aisles clear. Please, everyone, sit down. These Bolshevik sympathizers who are trying to take over this party, and we’re not going to let them. The police are coming. These people are a socialist. These people are just not. These people are imposters. They were not elected to the leadership. You think the only way the executive committee can stay in power reserves any tactics to keep the working class away from its true leadership because they’re afraid of revolution.
Whoever has no red car does not belong in the time. If you want to know where the true leadership of the Socialist Party of America is, it’ll be in the basement of this building in five minutes. Everybody, you’re welcome to join. I want anybody who does not have a red car to be out of this hall. It’s. Comrade chairman. I move that we immediately constitute ourselves as a bona fide communist party and that we call ourselves the Communist Labor Party of America.
Well, look, if we’re going to have a really revolutionary party, I think what we have to do is to find out from the american worker what he wants the most. And then we have to translate it back to him in terms of the labor movement as a whole. What we have to do is make him want more. We have to make him want the whole goddamn revolution. Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good antitrust law.
And whether we call our party the Socialist labor party or the real socialist, communist, or whatever we call them, it doesn’t matter because. Hello, Louis. You lost? No, I’m not lost. I’m here to tell my friends that the newly formed Communist Party of America is meeting at the Russian Federation on Blue Island Avenue. We welcome your applications. They will be judged on an individual basis. You’re going to judge our applications? We’re going to apply you for membership.
Comrade chairman, I’d like to call our question, please. The motion has been made. He seconded that we immediately constitute ourselves as a bona fide communist party, and that we call ourselves the Communist Labor Party of America. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion is carried. This is your own time to be fighting against one another. We should be united in our struggle against the capital.
You should have thought of that six weeks ago, Louis. If your people had stayed with us, would have had a majority and would be in control of that convention upstairs. Louis, your arithmetic. Something like your politics. We will be at the Russian Federation on Blue Island Avenue. I offered to see some of you there. Comrade chairman. Move. We immediately send a delegate to Moscow to gain recognition by the common turn for the Communist Labor Party of America, and that delegate be Jack Reid.
Second emotion. The motion has been made and seconded to send Jack Reid to Moscow immediately as the international delegate to obtain recognition of the common turn for the Communist Labor Party of America. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion is carried. All right, thanks. All right, comrade. Since the first question I’m going to be asked by the commentary is going to be about membership eligibility, I think I’m going to have to be very clear what our position is in relation to the foreign language Federation.
I’m going to have to say exactly what our requirements are as opposed to any other group, and I think we’ll have to make it clear on our platform committee and be very clear in the. Jack. Okay, Harry. Well, I guess you boys think you can run a newspaper without me. It. Let me make it easy for you, Jack. I’m not going with you. And if you go, I’m not sure I’ll be here when you get back.
Louise, you know the common turn doesn’t know Edmund or Alfred from the New York Yankees. They know me. Somebody’s got to go over there who’s got a background would be back by Christmas. We can’t merge with Frana. We can’t deal with him on membership eligibility. He wouldn’t accept half of our people. The man is going to do nothing but alienate himself from any potential broad base of support.
He’s sociologically isolated. Programmatically is impossible. You mean he’s a foreigner? Don’t do that, Luis. Six months ago you were friends. His people can barely speak English. They don’t even want to be integrated into american life. The foreign language federations aren’t going to create Bolshevism in America any more than eating borst will. Being Russian doesn’t make a revolution. Do you think the american worker is going to be led by the russian federations or an insular Italian like Louis Freina? He has no possibility of leading a revolution in this country, unlike you.
I’m just saying that the revolution in this country is not going to be led by immigrants. Revolution? In this country? When, Jack? Just after Christmas. Well, what do you think we could have done with a steel strike if we’d been ready? 30,000 party members, all armed with a unified theory and program leading 365,000 steel workers. What it takes is leadership, and we got to get it by getting recognition from Moscow.
I have to go. You don’t have to go. You want to go. You want to go running all over the world, ranting and raving and making resolutions and organizing caucuses. What’s the difference between the Communist Party and the Communist labor party except that you’re running one and he’s running the other? I’ve made a commitment. To what? To the fine distinction between which half of the left of the left is recognized by Moscow as the real Communist Party in America? To petty political squabbling between humorless and hat politicians just wasting their time on left wing dogma.
To getting the endorsement of a committee in Russia you called the International for your group of 14 intellectual friends in the basement who are supposed to tell the workers of this country what they want, whether they want it or not. Right, Jack? You’re not a politician. You’re a writer. And your writing has done more for the revolution than 20 years of this infighting could do, and you know it.
You’re an artist, Jack. Don’t go. Don’t run away from what you do the best. Jack. It. I’m going into the city. When do you leave? Tomorrow. I see. I’ll be back by Christmas. Will you be here? I don’t know. I’ll see you when I see you. Bye, Mrs. Reed. Sit down. What can I do for you? Hello, Jean. How are you? Fine. Sit down. How’s Jack? Oh, he’s fine.
He’s in Russia. Is he? Yes. He’s trying to get recognition from the common turn for the Communist labor party. You see, they split into two different factions. And you left alone with your work again. No. Well, actually, yes, but my work is different now. I do a lot of lecturing about what I saw in. Ah, yes, Russia. Russia’s been good for you and Jack. Giving you a way to meet people, giving him a reason to leave home.
Russia. Russia. Are you really that cynical, or are you angry with me? I’m really that cynical. Why would I be angry with you, Gene, if you’d been to Russia, you’d never be cynical about anything again. You would have seen people transformed. Ordinary people. Something in me tightens when an american intellectual’s eyes shine and they start to talk to me about the russian people. Something in me says, watch it.
A new version of irish Catholicism is being offered for your faith. And I wonder why a lovely wife like Louise Reed, who’s just seen the brave new world, is sitting around with a cynical bastard like me instead of trotting all over Russia with her idealistic husband. It’s almost worth being converted. Well, I was wrong to come. You and Jack have a lot of middle class dreams for two radicals.
Jack dreams that he can hustle the american working man, whose one dream is to be rich enough not to have to work, into a revolution led by his party. And you dream that if you discuss the revolution with a man before you go to bed with him, it’ll be missionary work rather than sex. Sorry to see you and Jack so serious about your sports. It’s particularly disappointing in you, Louise.
You had a lighter touch when you were touting free love. Well, you’ve become quite the critic, haven’t you, Jean? Just leaned back and analyzed us all. Duplicitous women who tout free love and then get married. Powermad journalists who join the revolution instead of observing it. Middle class radicals who come looking for sex and then talk about Russia. Must seem so contemptible to a man like you, who has the courage to sit on his ass and observe human inadequacy from the inside of a bottle.
Well, I’ve never seen you do anything for anyone. I’ve never seen you give anything to anyone. So I can understand why you might suspect the motives of those who have. But whatever Jack’s motives are, how I seem to have touched a wound. You’re a wounding son of a bitch. And whatever I’ve done to you, you’ve made me pay for it. Louise. Jesse. Hey, Jess. Come on. Come here, Jess.
Jesse, come here, Jesse. Jesse. He. Good evening. By the order of attorney general of the United States, a. Mitchell Palmer, I have a warrant here for western one John Silas Reed. Look upstairs, Frank. Arrest for what? Sedition. Where is he? What do you mean by sedition? Lady, don’t ask me. Ask Woodrow Wilson. Just tell me where he is. I don’t suppose there’s a chance of you being a bogeypick agitator, is there? Why don’t you just look around and see how agitated you get? In 1919, there were no more than four or five Americans who got into Russia because the country was surrounded on all sides.
You were actually forbidden to go, and you could only go illegally. It was very dangerous to go through Finland because the Finns were a white government and they were bitterly opposed to the Reds. They decided to strangle the revolutionary bolshevik infant in its cradle. And 16 armies went into Russia from the east and from the west for the purpose of wiping out the Bolsheviks and wiping out the revolution and restoring christian civilization to its rightful place.
Chicago. Thank you. I just want to know if you think that I was clear in what I said about membership. Eminently clear. Salt. Salt for the lemon. Thank you. I see you eat the peel with the lemon. Fight the scurvy, so does the onion. Together they fight better. You see, what I really want to do is ask your frank opinion whether you think we’ll get the endorsement from the committee.
I ask unofficially, of course. Unofficially? Unofficially, I don’t know. Well, it’s a peculiarly american problem. And you do think I was clear? Quite clear. In this case, however, clarity does not necessarily guarantee endorsement. Well, I don’t know. In this case, I think perhaps it might. In fact, what I really want to do is to make a detailed report for the executive committee to read on conditions in America.
You see, I’d like to deal in that report with the entire history of the American Federation of Labor. I’d like to deal with its support of the war, you see, and I’m going to talk about the persecution of the IWW. I’m going to deal with the rise of the patriarching societies and the capitulation of leading socialists. Am I speaking too quickly? No. And so I will deal with the rising militancy of american labor.
I’ll talk about the general strikes in Seattle and Winnipeg, the Boston police strike. I’m going to discuss the plum plan and particularly the attitude and the policies of the AF of L and the IWW toward them. Now, after that, I think it’s important. Camera the executive committee of the commenter has decided against endorsing either the Communist labor party or the Communist Party of America and instructs the two parties to merge forthwit.
Sit here. Camera. This time, your usual trail, as you can see, is now occupied by your detailed report on american conditions. Most penetrating study. Very, very clear. Thank you. Obviously it wasn’t clear enough. Camera. Redek? Yeah. I think there must have been some mistake about my travel arrangements, about my return to the United States. Well, it seems that this I’ve been asked to report to the propaganda bureau.
That’s right. Camera. The executive committee has decided you are very much needed in the propaganda bureau. We plan for you to remain in Soviet Russia until July. You are very welcome to the beyond propaganda. Well, thank you very much, but I thought that these travel arrangements had been made. I have to get to the latvian or the finnish border. And to which border would you suggest? Come. Retreat.
I understand that train travel is very dangerous at the moment, but why do you need a train? Because I have urgent personal considerations and responsibilities in the United States and I have. Excuse me, of what nature? I have a family. We all have families. Well, I can speak only for myself and I must see my wife. It’s very urgent. And I ask only for a single place on a train.
But you have a place on the train. You have a place on the train of this revolution. You have been like so many others, the best revolutionaries. One of the engineers on the locomotive of this train that pulls this revolution on the tracks of historical necessity laid out for it by the party. You can’t leave us now. We can’t replace you. What right do you have to leave right now? To do what? To see your wife.
Last year at the international congress, I learned that my son was very in Los Cyprus. I didn’t go to see my son because I knew I was needed where I was raised by the party. What you don’t understand like to abandon this moment in your life. Would you ever get this moment again? I am not abandoning the revolution. You are a writer. People know and respect your work.
You speak with authority of feeling. Comrade Zenoviev, for the past eight weeks I’ve been completely unable to communicate with my wife or with my comrades in the United States. I need to go back I would like your help, comrade. You can always go back to your private responsibilities. So can I. You can never come back to this moment in history. I’m sorry. I have no right to tell you about your own life.
You know it better than I do. It was impossible to get out of Russia. There was white armies all around, so escape was not dreamt of. We had a communication from Jack. He was in prison in Finland where he couldn’t communicate freely. But he got word out to me to take a message to Louise. And I remember walking over to Louise. She lived right near me. I walked over to Louise’s apartment on Patchett Place and spent an evening with her, talking about Jack.
And she talked very earnestly about Jack’s flight. Mrs. Reed, the United States cannot involve itself in the internal affairs of Finland. Are you trying to tell me the american consul can’t give you any information? I’m afraid that there’s nothing that the State Department can do. Don’t give me that garbage. If his name were Rockefeller, there’d be something you could do. Hey, Mrs. Reed, if your husband’s name were Rockefeller, I think he would hardly be under indictment for a conspiracy to overthrow the United States government.
He has only one kidney. He could be dangerously ill. That is a chance that your husband took, Mrs. Reed, when he left the United States without an exit visa or a passport. Good day, Mrs. Reed. The United States participated with the allies in military expeditions against the Soviet Union in attempt to overcome them, invade them, and set up another government. Oh, yes. There was a noose to be pulled around Russia, which gave you an idea of how a whole country can be surrounded, east, west, south and north.
Your name and the name of your contact in Finland. Terry spoke to me. Louise, I don’t think you realize how difficult this trip would be for a woman. You’d have to stow away. If you got there at all, it would take you six months. Terry said he thought that you could arrange a freighter for me as far as Norway. I want to talk to you about something, indicate I could go.
I can sign on as a seamen. There’d be no questions asked, I think, under the circumstances. Don’t look at me like that. Jack reads a friend it. Your blood pressure is very high. They only give me some kind of salted fish. The blood in your mouth is from the gums. You have scurvy. An impressive shadow. Red. Come. Righteous. Could you send a cable to my wife? It. Miss Reed, I have something for you.
Is there a cable? You should take one of these powders in a glass of water once a day. She said word to me. Here. They won’t say. People can find out nothing. You. You are being released. You know, I must tell you, I lost sight of John Reed completely. But what I heard was the Bolsheviki traded some finnish professors for the release of John Reed. Yeah. Here as well.
Could you take me to the telegraph office? Yes. Get in. Thank you. Louis Bryant Hudson, New York, USA. I’m safe. Stop. Please contact. Please contact. Petra Grategraph. No horse from you. Stop. Please forgive Christmas. Please forgive Christmas. Could you send it right away? He would trade for John Re 50. Professor Louise Brian, Croton Bonf, New York, USA. Immediate. Immediate return. Louise, New York, USR. Still no words from you.
Stop. Have no fixed address. Luis Bratton on Hoodson, New York. Must know. Are you well? Do not understand. Do not understand why no work from you. Need work from you. Do not understand your feelings. New York. You check R-E-A-D? Yes. And you check R-E-I-D-R-E-I-D-I have. Excuse me 1 second. I thought maybe there’s some other way of misspelling the name. You also looked under R-E-I-D? Yes. Many people. Wait.
Something calm. We’ll notify you. What have you heard? Not much. What have you heard? I don’t hear. I wait. They’ve jailed more anarchists, but they made Bill shout out head of the siberian railway. They treated me very well and I’m reserving my judgment. Well, that’s why there’s so much I don’t understand. The forest with an easy reach of Petrograd. Why is the city freezing? I asked him over there.
He said, our enemies have destroyed all means of transportation. They killed off our horses as well as our men. How would we get out of it? I said, what about the people of Petrograd? They could go there together on foot and haul the wood back with ropes. He said, oh, yes, it would make the people warmer, but it would interfere with the. You get letters from America, E.
G. Oh, yes. All open by the justice department. I hope they enjoy what they read. I don’t. So I asked him, what are the main political policies? He said, concentration of all power in the hands of the proletarian Avantgarde. The Avantgarde of the revolution, which is the communist part. Anybody mention Louise? I don’t think so. You haven’t heard from her? I sent her cables, but I don’t get any answer.
Per. Hello. Long time wait. Reese Williams mentioned her in his letter. He hasn’t heard from her either. What did he say? I think he said he tried to reach her sometime after Christmas, but she’d left New York. How long ago was that? We know these letters take a couple of months to get you. By the time I get this, whoever sent it is either in jail or deported.
Which way? First the eyes go, then the legs. Yeah. I don’t understand the fuel situation either. I don’t know. He said she seems to be out of town. That’s all he said? Yeah. What did he say about O’Neill? O’Neill? Nothing. What did he say? Nothing. Can I see it? I’m sorry. I just don’t know where dad would have come here. She’d have to leave the United States illegally, then live in exile with you and never go home again.
All for the sake of a revolution she was never any part of. Why should she? You chose the life of a revolutionist. She didn’t. Your cables only focus the Justice Department’s attention on her. And the most seditious thing they can accuse her of is being your wife. Leave her alone. Let her choose her own future. Why hasn’t she answered me? I think she has answered. You’re it. She was much hated for her extravagance in clothes.
Well, a long time ago, somebody said to me, women whose lives have been in danger over a long period are always the most extravagant. Comrades. As wrong headed as many of its policies are, the IWW is a revolutionary union, and the American Federation of Labor is not. To think that we can infiltrate the American Federation of Labor and convert it to revolutionary policies is hopeless. Translation? That’s not what he said.
What he said for us to make a point on the floor of the congress, we have to go from our own English language into the official German language for the Italian or Spanish or French language. And then when the response from. What is your question, please? Simply for the labor union issue, could we have the english language as an official language on the floor of the congress? This is the third time you have raised the issue has been decided.
We must move on to the national colonial issues. Real revolutionary workers in the United States quit the af. We have to make the Russians understand. That’s why we want you to know, capiscono, to extend a no etopia moyutaria. And to keep the debate, a continuity debate in America. Yeah. Are you okay? Did you talk to Sadhul? Yes, I did. Comrades, I’m still opposed to closing the discussion here.
I think that this discussion, to avoid hearing the american and the british delegations, and if for no other reason than that it shows Comrade Radek uses this sort of remark in place of an argument, and as a result, he doesn’t want to talk about it. He wants to what is not distinguished by excessive fear of distorting the truth. He goes on day and night and has the chip to claim that the discussion is being broken out because of fear of the great light.
Unique Israel. Yes, at the problem of the international. Until tomorrow morning. Other people do not have the time. Comrade Raydeck. Other people that don’t have the time for this discussion are 101 leaders of the IWW who are in jail today in the United States because of their revolutionary views. And if we turn our back on these comrades out of some pipe dream to radicalize the American Federation of labor, which cannot be done.
6th session of this commission. We spent whole day today discussing it, and you insinuate we are trying to dismiss the issue? We haven’t had enough discussion. We haven’t had enough discussion. My friend here to realize that Louis Freina and I think alike on this problem. Every American on our delegation, every man on the English. You are a member of this committee. You are not an independent political comrade steamroller by this committee that has not had a proper education on this problem.
The discussion is closed. However, if camera adrid wishes to make a statement, you’ll have two minutes to do so. I would merely want to say that on behalf of the american delegates, that we will refuse to vote on these theses and that I myself will resign my seat on this committee. Yes. Discussion for the ending postal, um provided dream that we had is dying in Russia. If bolshevism means the peasants taking the land, the workers taking the factories, Russia is one place where there’s no bolshevism.
You know, I can argue with cops. I can fight with generals. I can’t deal with a bureaucrat. You think Zenoviev is nothing worse than a bureaucrat? The Soviets have no more local autonomy. The central state has all the power. All the power is in the hands of a few men, and they are destroying the revolution. They are destroying any hope of real communism in Russia. They’re putting people like me in jail.
My understanding of revolution is not a continual extermination of political dissenters, and I want no part of it. Every single newspaper has been shut down or taken over by the party. Anyone even vaguely suspected of being a counter revolutionary can be taken out and shot without a trial. Where does that end? Is any nightmare justifiable in the name of defense against counter revolution? The dream may be dying in Russia.
But I’m not. May take some time. I’m getting out. You sound like you’re a little confused by the revolution in action, e. G. Up to now, you’ve only dealt with it in theory. What did you think this thing was going to be? A revolution by consensus, where we all sat down and agreed over a cup of coffee? Nothing works. 4 million people died last year. Not from fighting a war.
They died from starvation and typhus in a militaristic police state that suppresses freedom and human rights, where nothing works. They died because of a french, british, and american blockade that cut off all food and medical supplies, and because counterrevolutionaries have sabotaged the factories and the railroads and the telephones, and because the people, the poor, ignorant, superstitious, illiterate people, are trying to run things themselves, just as you always said that they should, but they don’t know how to run them yet.
Did you really think things were going to work right away? Did you really expect social transformation to be anything other than a murderous process? It’s a war, e. G. And we got to fight it like we fight a war, with discipline, with terror, with firing squads, or we just give it up. Those 4 million people didn’t die fighting war. They died from a system that cannot work. It’s just the beginning, e.
G. It’s not happening the way we thought it would. It’s not happening the way we wanted it to, but it’s happening. If you walk out on it now, what’s your whole life meant? Could you tell me if my resignation is ready for signature yet? It is. Good. Thank you. Thank you, comrade. Welcome back. Cover three. Now you’ll be able to represent the american workers at the forthcoming congress at Baku to inspire revolution among the peoples of the Middle east.
Prepare for a difficult trip. Our only route is through divided territory. There’s nothing. Um. Some of these intellectuals spread rumors that he changed his mind afterwards, trying to show that he came to his senses. It’s preposterous. These men, I don’t even remember them. I don’t want to remember them. It was a rock. It was a defense. It have. Yeah. All trains to but canceled because of attacks by country revolutionary.
Some trains that. All trains reserved for. All trains to, but canceled because of attacks by country revolutionaries. Reparation. Oh, how in the name of God did you get interested? So you wait for a while. By the time you got there, back here anyway. Going in. All right. Sit down. Ah. I want to tell you something. It’s late, I know. I want to thank you for that scarf. Yes.
I was wrong about you. So was I. The american oil companies are trying to establish monopoly of oil. Filipinos rebelled against the cruel colonial government of Spain. But after the Spaniard been driven out, you know, come around to like the Americans have promised the Filipinos independence. Soon an independent filipino republic will be proclaimed. Was there. They are supporting you for your call for a holy war of islamic people against the western infidelity.
Excuse me. Camera. Jeep. They said you are not happy with the translations of your speech. I did the German into Turkey and Kamara Dotzynski did the Russian into German. Russian? Who turned it into Russian in the first place? Well, I don’t know. They were already in Russian when we got them from the office of camera dinovia. I’m sorry for my hearing. Looks as fine. You do the trend places of my speech? I supervised it.
Yes. I didn’t say holy war. I said class. I took a liberty of altering a phrase or doom. Yes, well, I don’t allow people to take those liberties from what I write. Aren’t you propagandist enough to utilize what moves people most? I’m propagandist enough to utilize the truth. And who defines this truth? You or the party? Is your life dedicated to for your. You don’t talk about what my wife is dedicated to.
Your life. You haven’t resolved what your life is dedicated. You see yourself as an artist and at the same time as a revolutionary. As the lover to your wife, but also the spokesman for the american. You don’t think a man can be an individual and be true to the collective? Or speak for his own country and the international at the same time? Or love his wife and still be faithful to the revolution? You don’t have a self to give.
Would you ever be willing to give yourself to this revolution? Separate man from what he loves the most? What you do is purge what’s unique in him. And when you purge what’s unique in him, you purge dissent. And when you purge dissent, you kill the revolution. Revolution is dissent. You don’t rewrite what I write. Not like revolutionary. Show it it with a horse. You it. It. It that.
Comrade, the doctor would like to see you now. Medazina issues deal with. Yes. Kidney Cartino reacts in Vialphilix. The doctor thinks that we must do more analysis. And the picture of his illness will be clear in a few days. And he wants you to know that we show to the best conditions for camradrite to prevent possibility of high blood pressure to cause stroke. Basic doctor. But also, this is no, Jack.
It. What’s that? Waterflake was come to New York with me. New York. I got a taxi waiting. I wouldn’t mind. What as? What as? What as? Gee, I don’t know. Comrades. What? Here? Well, I want to go home. Yeah, it is, Bob. It. I don’t want to play in your yard if you can’t be good to me. It was in the afternoon, sometime in the fall, I think, October, I think somebody came to tell me that Jacqueline died.
And imagine how I felt. I’ve forgotten all about them. Were they socialists? Many of them were idealists. You know, things go, come back. I don’t know what the outside world, but they were a mean. You always spoke of Louise Bryant and Jack Reed. He was just a man in the primal. Sorry, guys. Thank you, Renie. So I’m gonna. One of these days I’m gonna figure this whole freaking thing out without the technical difficulties.
Shit. Unless you read my lips. God, such a moron. I swear. Yeah, I don’t have any sympathy for that guy. The system that he loved ate him up. I guess that would be true for me. The system that I love, and I love the United States, I love the idea of the constitution. And that’s something that is a hill that I will die upon. From that perspective, I can have a sense of respect for the guy, but that’s about it.
I don’t know if that makes any sense, but, yeah, I don’t have any respect for anybody who’s essentially a communist. Somebody who espouses for the government to run everything. I thought it was interesting that the lady who won Academy award, I found it interesting that she realized that the system was broken and that it wouldn’t work. In fact, let me find. Where was it that she said that? Where was it that she said that? Here it is, right here’s not going to go hunting for it.
Anyway, I just thought it was really interesting that she had that moment of clarity and she won Academy Award for best supporting actress in this movie. It’s not surprising that this movie got 13 nominations. It had 13 nominations. That’s just par for the course for Hollywood. Is anybody in the chat? I’m curious, are you guys aware of Myron Fagan? Are you guys aware of the Myron Fagan talk that he gave? I’m curious here.
I’m going to look this up. Let me know in the chat if you guys are familiar with Myron Fagan and the book that he wrote called Red Stars over Hollywood. It’s like 2 hours and 25 minutes. It’s a little dry, but it’s really good. And I actually bought the pamphlet that went along with this, and I found a copy of it. It was an old copy, and I bought it.
It’s not in very good shape. I mean, it’s old, probably 60 years old. And I bought a copy of that. I don’t remember how much it was, but, like 50, $60 because it’s kind of rare. But it had a list of all these Hollywood actors that were. Was. I was shocked to see people like Gregory Peck and Burgess Meredith and let’s see, Lucille Ball. Lucille Ball was a communist.
She was like one of the head communists in Hollywood. I was like, whoa. I was blown away at, you know, Myron Fagan didn’t hold back anything when know published that. I’m curious, actually. Let me see if I can find the text of it. If it’s in there. If I can find it, I can be able to show it here. Yeah, here it is. Red stars over Hollywood. Check this out.
Make it big. And it lists. Here you go. Here’s the enemy pool. Just so that they won’t feel slighted by the billing, I will name them alphabetically. Larry Adler, Lauren Bacall, Joan Bennett Beerman. Let’s see. Humphrey Bogart. Let’s see if I can just go through charity chaplain. Let’s see some of these names. I don’t really remember or don’t know very well because this is before my time. Let’s see.
Gordon, Catherine Hepburn, let’s see. John Houston, William Holden. Let’s see. He mentioned some of the people in here, so that not everybody is listed in this name or in this list, but Groucho Marx, Burgess Meredith. Let’s see. That’s page eight. So it’s not. I wonder if I can search. Do a search in the names in here. Do that. It doesn’t give me any search capabilities, but I’ll put a link to this.
I’ll put a link to this. Copy this link, and here you go. That is the red stars over Hollywood. It was from 1949. That’s why. So, yeah, the one that I have, it’s old because it’s not in very good shape. But this guy, he did all this stuff, and he wrote like a play. He talks in that speech about how he was contracted to write a play and expose all the stuff in Hollywood.
I don’t have any love for the communist agenda, but I mean, the communist agenda in Hollywood goes back a long time. So many people think that the communist stuff in the United States was started in the. But no, I think this is a fairly accurate representation of what happened in the United States, because the communists, they were organizing in the teens. When was this? 19 16, 19 50, 16 17.
They were organizing back then. And you look at the agenda that was pushed by council on Foreign Relations, and that started in what, 1921? Something like that. So it goes back a long way. This goes back a really long way. But anyway, I digress. It’s about 715 on the west coast. So I’m going to let you all go enjoy the remainder of your evening. The chat is pretty quiet, so either people are watching it from watching it, or it’s just a slow night in chat, but all is well.
Thanks, everybody, for tuning in. I hope that you enjoyed, sorta enjoyed the movie. Thank you, Safara, for suggesting this. It was interesting. It was interesting to see. I’m glad that I got to see it. I had never seen it before. This probably because I just didn’t really want to see anything that had to do with communism or supported communism. And now I understand why I never did see it.
My suspicions were, these guys, you know what I probably should do is I should probably show the thing, since I think is Monday, Martin Luther King Day. Am I right on that? Martin Luther King, Jr. Yeah, Monday, January the 20th. So that’s like, in four days, you know, what I’m going to do on that day is I’m going to play the thing about Martin Luther King and him essentially being a communist.
So I think that would be a worthwhile use and honor of that day. All of his speeches were. Were written. He wasn’t a doctor, he wasn’t a reverend. He wasn’t anything that he proclaimed. However, I do think, and this is just my own suspicion, I think that he began to have doubts about the whole communist thing, and I think he was killed for it. That was one of the reasons why I think they murdered him.
But we can address that next week. When I play, it’s a short thing. It’s like about 25 minutes or so, but I think that would be a worthwhile thing to play, especially on the Martin Luther King Day. So, anyway, guys, you enjoy the remainder of your evening, and I will look forward to seeing you probably some point this weekend. I’m really eager to get into that, more of the book, but I have a few things that I have to do this weekend for some preparation stuff.
So. So I’m hoping that I can get to it if time allows. But if not, you absolutely will see me Monday. So if I do get to come back on Saturday or Sunday. It will be a luxury, but I’m going to try. So, anyway, if I don’t see you guys, have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you when I see you. Have a great night, everybody. Bye. .
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