"in advanced capitalist countries the party of the proletariat, as well as the cultural movement of the proletariat, goes forward not through alliance with the liberals, but in irreconcilable struggle against them. Our allies are those who, breaking with treacherous bourgeois liberalism, seek their way, however falteringly, toward the world of all power to the workers. These, still filled with many of their bourgeois prejudices, require not sermons and decrees, not "Communist snobbery", as Lenin called it,but a personal approach and comradely guidance. And let us remember that these new allies are coming not merely to the proletarian literary movement, which in this country is at present very weak, but to the knowledge, the experience, the revolutionary clearsightedness and intransigence of a movement that is international in scope, that sets itself heroic goals embracing every field of human activity."
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Journalists from the United StatesEditors from the United StatesJews from the United StatesUniversity of Pennsylvania alumniMembers of the Communist Party USA
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"Pity and Terror" in New Masses (December 1932)
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A.B. Magil
Abraham Bernard "Abe" Magil (1905 – January 2003), better known as A.B. Magil, was a journalist, editor, and pamphleteer. He was Jewish and lived most of his life in the USA.
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