| | Monthly Review: A serious flaw in Kovel - response to W. H. Locke Anderson's review of Joel Kovel's book 'Red Hunting in the Promised Land', May 1994 |
 | | But Kovel seems to concede that the Establishment media's depiction of the famous Cold War "spy" cases is identical with courtroom evidence, for his textual analysis of the Cold War shies completely away from this subject (as does Anderson's review), much as if it were contaminated and dangerous to get close to. |
| | Kovel's book grew out of a 1988 conference at Harvard University, "Anticommunism in the United States: History and Consequences." Although the particular topics of Red Hunting in the Promised Land have already been intensively studied and explored, there has been virtually nothing peviously written on anticommunism as an all-embracing syndrome. |
| | IN my reading of this work Kovel is saying something quite different, namely that the uniquely U.S. brand of anticommunism has enriched and made all-dominant in the governance of this land an elite few; and that the sole objective in the war against Communism was (and is) to save wealth and preserve power. |
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