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Old 01-20-2016, 01:45 PM   #21
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It was like a religious faith for some people. The Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawn remained a member of the British Communist Party until it dissolved in 1991.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/200...graphy.history
This is probably an American thing, but in the ongoing feud between Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman (Team Mary, here), both "pink" back in the day, one of McCarthy's charges against Hellman was that she didn't repudiate the Party when the information about the show trials came out.
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