Joe Kahn shares a name with my grandfather, a Manhattanite who put himself through night school to get his CPA and literally helped defeat Hitler by doing accounting for the Army.
He (my grandpa Joe) was radicalized at Fort Bragg basic training, where the Jewish New Yorkers stuck together for protection against the hillbillies.
So a bunch of working class brainiacs (who had, as you might guess, thought a LOT about how money is used by power) introduced my granddad to Das Kapital.
Grandpa Joe died in the 1980s, having been a member of the New York Communist Party since the end of the war.
I still remember his memorial service in the CPUSA headquarters, where I (a fourth grader) thought that the balding, goateed man in the painting was my grandpa. (It was Lenin.)
@trochee Everything else aside, the Times really thinks that they're "impartial"? They've barely found a TERF that they're not eager to give column inches to between Biden age stories.
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