“Infiltration, Violence, Deportation: How the State Broke Up Socialism in US, w/ Brian Becker”, Interview and discussioin with Rania Kalek and Brian Becker, Rania Kalek Dispatches, on Break Through News, the discussion lasts for 1:34:33 and is available at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Brian Becker discusses the long term and extremely violent and ruthless actions by the U.S. ruling class to break the power of Socialist and Communist ideas in the U.S. He was, among other accomplishments, a leadership figure at the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition. The Answer Coalition was a leading organization in the resistance to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. This is a succinct discussion of the many murderous actions taken against Leftists in the U.S. over the years. It is an immense topic and Becker moves along quickly in the discussion. The discussion is divided up into the following segments: 1). 0:00 Intro, 2). 2:44 1920s persecution of the left, 3). 6:58 Great Depression, WW2, the left grows, 4).10:17 How the left gave us The New Deal, 5). 16:22 1950s Cold War, Korean War, Rosenbergs, Purges, 6). 28:24 Fierce repression of the Black liberation movement, 7). 44:29 Splits in the antiwar movement, 8). 1:01:05 Right tries to co-opt the left, 9). 1:13:20 Why did Covid split the left? 10).1:29:34 How to get offline and involved.
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