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In Unholy Alliance I described the new radicals as “neo-Communists” because they shared the same view of American society as the old communists and their prescriptions for radical change were drawn from same the moth-eaten and bloody pages of the Marxist left. It’s interesting that people think nothing of referring to neo-conservatives (even though the neo-conservatives think of themselves as old fashioned liberals) but if you call anti-American, marxist radicals “neo-communists” you’re a McCarthyite. I failed to resurrect the term, but now that Van Jones has surfaced as a protege of liberals (Alan Colmes has even described Jones as “a mainstream liberal”) perhaps conservatives and patriotic Americans will start to call neo-communists by a name that actually describes them (as “liberal” does not).
The Democratic Party has major task in front of it, which is to dissociate itself from the Communists in its ranks and in its alliances. This happened before in 1948 and the years that followed when socialists like Walter Reuther purged Communists from the CIO and Harry Truman nudged them out of the Democratic Party (they formed the Progressive Party to run against Truman in 1948).
– The ACLU and the Unholy Alliance
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