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Left sectarianism was not the only basis for expulsions. In 1948 the party’s State Review Commission drafted a report on its work over the three years since the reorganization. Noting that its most important work had been “smashing” the left sectarian faction, the committee’s draft also reported on other investigations and expulsions: “In the course of the past three years, we conducted 300 hearings, expelling 70 members for ‘left-sectarianism’, and 10 ‘Right Opportunists’[sic] 2 stoolpigeons, 5 homo-sexuals“ [cross-out in draft, with “morally corrupt” written in with pencil].” The draft report noted that the California party had expelled some four hundred individuals over the previous fifteen years, the largest number of whom were “swindlers, thieves and financially irresponsible people,” followed by “Trotskyites and other ‘political’ revisers of Marxism” along with “paid informers and stool-pigeons.” The draft added, “In every one of the groupings, we find that the majority were guilty of [white] chauvinism or anti-semitism,” and concluded that this experience emphasized the continuing “necessity for struggle” against “rotten liberalism” (tolerance inside the party of those who disagreed with the official party line) and “such fascist ideas as chauvinism and anti-semitism.” The report singled out Harrison George: “Can Harrison George deny seeking to obtain documents from Union offices by theft? . . . Can Harrison George deny that he connived and planned to seize the People’s World through members of the Board of Directors?”

—p.157 The Party in Crisis, 1945–1950 (145) by Robert W. Cherny 2 months, 2 weeks ago