Re: The Rosenberg Boys in The Atlantic

Thanks, Marv and Donal -- One "quibble" -- I think it's MUCH WORSE
today and I think I know why --- In 1948, the possibility of a left-wing
opposition to the Cold War and anti-communism of the Truman Administration
was dashed by the poor showing oif the Henry Wallace Progressive Party
campaign -- then after Taft-Harley was passed, the union leadership
actually WELCOMED the purging of communists --- FINALLY, rearmament, the
Berlin air-lift and the Korean war occurred with virtually NO opposition
--- Thus, by the time my parents were killed, the establishment had beaten
back any threat from the left --- meaning out and out fascism was NOT
NECESSARY ---

Today, Trumpism has MUCH MORE serious opposition and therefore the attempt
to do without even the trappings of democratic forms becomes necessary for
the Trumpist coalition of -- 1) Out and out racists who never accepted the
Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of 1964 and 65 --2)_ The Christian
Natioinalists who never accepted even the partial liberation of women,  3)
The billionaires who don't just want their money --- they want to be
praised and honored and given more power --- 4). UNFORTUNATELY, the failure
of neoliberalism to deliver the goods and the failure of Obama and Biden to
reverse the trends of neo-liberalism got too many of the working class to
"TRYI" Trumpism -- these four are the legs of the incipient fascist stool
that promises much worse than what happened in the so-called McCarthy
period.   My parents claimed to have been the first victiims of American
Fascism (I don't agree with the word first --- think of all the black
Americans killed by lynching between the 1890s and Emmkett Till in thie Jim
Crow South) --- they were fortiunately wrong --

BUT NOW _-- we've all got a much tougher fight on our hands ---

Thanks for bringing the article to the attention of the group.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM Marv Gandall via groups.io <marvgand2=
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 11:41 AM, Michael Meeropol wrote:
>
> Would be curious what comrades think of it.
>
> It’s hard to read. I’m your age and still vividly remember being upset by
> the front page story in the Montreal Star describing their barbarous
> executions. My folks weren’t reds but they identified with the Rosenbergs
> with kids around the same age. We used to often visit my favourite aunt in
> Brooklyn and I was also a Dodgers fan (the Royals were their farm team).
>
> It’s good to see your parents' warmth and humanity treated sympathetically
> through your own and Robert’s recollections, and also timely as a new red
> scare is being rolled out to break the left, albeit nothing as severe as
> the widespread brutal repression experienced by your parents' and previous
> generations.
> 
>
>


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