ABSTRACT
The nub of the matter is the singular political symbiosis that has taken place between the present generation of post—New Left academics and their Communist predecessors. The Communists in the universities would have been ashamed to admit that they thought the same way as everyone else, and that they did not know the class character of such bourgeois shibboleths as “objectivity and fairness”. In any case, Communists “struggled” to present their Marxism “in an unbiased way”. The role of the Soviet Union was central in the Communist consciousness; the Soviet Union was then the embodiment of what Communism stood for, the guarantor of the true faith. The American Communist Party was no longer the best way to fight fascism; it was the best way to fight the embattled enemies of fascism. The international practice was then worked out in the Communist International in the early 1920s.
