"I discovered that I had deluded myself into believing that this world held the answer to the future and that Communism was basically humanitarian in its approach to politics. No one duped me into joining, and the struggle to see through my folly has been a great personal struggle. You donāt discover some morning that everything you believe in, and perhaps have staked your life on, is a myth. The act of breaking with Communism was the most difficult one of my life."
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As quoted in āEscape Artist: Recalling a YAF heroāthe unlikely, liberating journey of Phillip Abbott Luceā, Shawn Steel, California Political Review, July-August (2000) pp. 23-28
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Phillip Abbott Luce
Phillip Abbott Luce (October 17, 1935 ā December 9, 1998) was an American author, lecturer and political organizer who had earlier taken leadership roles in communist organizations, mostly the pro-Red Chinese Progress Labor Movement (PLM), only to repudiate them by early 1965. He was indicted in 1963 as one of the main leaders and spokesman for an unauthorized trip to communist Cuba that arranged an audience with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
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