John McCain: Salute to a Communist

[struggle4progress]

... Delmer Berg wasn’t a celebrity. He wasn’t someone with great wealth or influence. He had never held public office. He was a Californian. He worked as a farmhand and stonemason. He did some union organizing. He was vice president of his local N.A.A.C.P. chapter. He protested against the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons. He joined the United States Communist Party in 1943, and, according to The Times, he remained an “unreconstructed Communist” for the rest of his life. He was 100.

He was also the last known living veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

Not many Americans younger than 70 know much about the Lincoln Brigade. It became the designation given to the nearly 3,000 mostly American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War in 1937 and 1938. They fought on the Republican side, in defense of the democratically elected leftist government of Spain, and against the Nationalists, the military rebels led by Gen. Francisco Franco ...

He didn’t need to know for whom the bell tolls. He knew it tolled for him. And I salute him. Rest in peace.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/opinion/john-mccain-salute-to-a-communist.html

[Buzz cook]

1. A premature anti-facist.

At least that is the excuse used for attacking members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Or they did the right thing for the wrong reason.
Similar to the invasion of Iraq. The people that opposed it were right for the wrong reasons.

I have the greatest respect for Mr. Berg and all his comrades.

[nxylas]

2. A charge also levelled against Charlie Chaplin

He was accused of "premature anti-fascism" for making The Great Dictator before America entered the war.