Taking down the “Soviet Menace” in America, was, as we saw in part 11, not a response to any real “national security threat,” but a very real threat to corporate profits and neocolonial domination by the U.S. ruling class. It was a shield to hide its real, and much less popular, mission to take down those bold enough to challenge racism, advocate aggressively for workers, for peace, rather than world war, or cold war, and a post-war world that would also be free of colonialism. 

Even decades later this was so successful most of those who were extirpated from public life remain forgotten.

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