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| | The Idealist in the Young Communist League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | I had already learned that a Communist was not what I had previously been led to believe him to be: a man with a fl beard, dressed in a long fl overcoat hanging to the ground, and holding a bomb that looked like a fl bowling ball. |
 | | According to Morris L. Ernst and David Loth in their Report on the American Communist, some who were lonely, or who lacked love from their own family, found that the YCL gave them a sense of belonging, an illusion of popularity that marked the high point in their lives. |
 | | According to Ernst and Loth in Report on the American Communist, most of the young Communists were "earnest, hardworking, studious youths, generally passionate for justice." They joined in their teens, lured by the utopian idealism of Marxism, and betrayed by the evils of Stalinism. |
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