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Home Front: Politix
Dem Senate Candidate Dodges Questions About Ties to Communist Group
2014-09-10
[FREEBEACON] The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Montana last month dodged questions about her ties to a group that explicitly advocates the abolition of capitalism in the United States.

"That sounds like contemporary communism," said Montana Public Radio news hound Edward O'Brien of the Industrial Workers of the World, a labor group for which Montana politician Amanda Curtis' husband is a representative.

Her ties to the group have come under scrutiny since she won the Democratic nomination for Senate. She replaced disgraced Sen. John Walsh (D.) on the ticket after it was revealed that he plagiarized his final paper at the Army War College.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Wobblies were bigtime in southeast Arizona mining town of Bisbee 100 years or so ago. The Feds put them in boxcars and unloaded them in the neighboring New Mexico desert. Not very effective anarchists (that would be an oxymoron) but highly romanticized to this day by the left.
Posted by: borgboy   2014-09-10 18:40  

#8  Since the Socialists of America nor the Communist Party USA no longer run a cndidate for any office, but instead donate to and actively support the democrats, the goals and policys are the same. Ask comrade Obama.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink   2014-09-10 16:58  

#7  Mitch H says "general idealistic imbecility ".

Is there a better, brief description of leftism in all its varieties? The internal bickering about the number (and type) of angels that can dance on the head of a pin has been forever captured by Monty Python in Life of Brian.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-09-10 12:14  

#6  IIRC, the Wobblies aren't Communist, they're Anarcho-Syndicalist. Which means they used to get into open street fighting with Stalin's true believers, but couldn't really be called "Trotskyite". They haven't been a real threat to anybody since the Spanish Civil War, and the Wobblies neither had the money of Comintern-funded outfits, nor the intellectual cachet and the prestige of the Trots. The IWW organizes the occasional hapless food co-op, until their general idealistic imbecility drives said operation out of business. Usually on the "very slowly, then all at once" model of bankruptcy.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2014-09-10 11:20  

#5  A Democrat dodges questions about ties with the Communist Party. The Democratic Party is the Communist Party.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-09-10 09:58  

#4  Mullah, they're not only still around one of their sould mates is president.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-09-10 08:17  

#3  Donks are still scared of being openly Communists? They no longer hide the redistribution part why not admit it? Inner Party, outer party, proles, it's about it now.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-09-10 08:00  

#2  I don't either, Ship.

Apparently they're still around.

Then again, so are quite a few of the SDS/Weathermen folks from the '60s.

I remember meeting a couple IWW guys at some labor relations function in the early 70's. They were pretty strange, even in those days.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2014-09-10 07:58  

#1  Don't recall the last time the Wobblies were in the headlines.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-09-10 06:05  

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