| "You
don't understand the class structure of American society,"
said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the
United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class
are Republicans. The upper class are Communists."
Whittaker
Chambers, Witness, p. 616 |

|
The
number of apologists for the former Soviet Union and its mass murderers
dwarfs the handful of aberrant pro-Nazi academics in America. Sympathy
for the Communist project and distaste for attacking are today fully
accepted in American higher education.
John
Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, In Denial: Historians, Communism
and Espionage (2003), p. 13 |