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CIA and the Non-communist Left (NCL)

The CCF did not create the New Left. You yourself have provided a quote that indicates that the CCF did not create the New Left. You are rather confused.
It did. It just thought the New Left was "separate" from their interest when in fact, the New Left turned out to be ironically what the CCF actually wanted.
 
The very good Who Paid the Piper? covers what Yugoslav is waffling on about.
Interestingly it brings up that Milovan Đilas also received some funds from the CIA. Wouldn't be surprised given his overtly liberal status that got him excluded from Yugoslavia for daring to propose a prototype of Perestroika and Glasnost that was certainly not needed in the 1950s as Yugoslavia had to be focused on industrializing its republics at the time. Later in a 1987 interview, Đilas outright said that communism does not work as a result of him completely abandoning socialism. Đilas, despite being Montenegrin, also rejected the existence of Montenegrin cultural identity (especially after he left the party).
 
It did. It just thought the New Left was "separate" from their interest when in fact, the New Left turned out to be ironically what the CCF actually wanted.
The Congress for Cultural Freedom created a movement it described as "Stalinist"? Why would it want to create a Stalinist organisation?
 
Interestingly it brings up that Milovan Đilas also received some funds from the CIA. Wouldn't be surprised given his overtly liberal status that got him excluded from Yugoslavia for daring to propose a prototype of Perestroika and Glasnost that was certainly not needed in the 1950s as Yugoslavia had to be focused on industrializing its republics at the time. Later in a 1987 interview, Đilas outright said that communism does not work as a result of him completely abandoning socialism. Đilas, despite being Montenegrin, also rejected the existence of Montenegrin cultural identity (especially after he left the party).
Leaving aside the particularities of Yugoslav socialism as Marxist-Leninists understood it, and its uneasy relationship with the USSR, dissident is such a classist term of distinction. Ordinary people rejected the imposition of authoritarian state rule but weren't lauded for it. They didn't write books but in their silence and invisibility still ended up in a burial pit or prison camp for their efforts. Dilas wasn't the only person, party intellectual or otherwise, to become utterly disillusioned by Stalinism.
 
Interestingly it brings up that Milovan Đilas also received some funds from the CIA. Wouldn't be surprised given his overtly liberal status that got him excluded from Yugoslavia for daring to propose a prototype of Perestroika and Glasnost that was certainly not needed in the 1950s as Yugoslavia had to be focused on industrializing its republics at the time. Later in a 1987 interview, Đilas outright said that communism does not work as a result of him completely abandoning socialism. Đilas, despite being Montenegrin, also rejected the existence of Montenegrin cultural identity (especially after he left the party).
What party are you a member of?
 
Leaving aside the particularities of Yugoslav socialism as Marxist-Leninists understood it, and its uneasy relationship with the USSR, dissident is such a classist term of distinction. Ordinary people rejected the imposition of authoritarian state rule but weren't lauded for it. They didn't write books but in their silence and invisibility still ended up in a burial pit or prison camp for their efforts. Dilas wasn't the only person, party intellectual or otherwise, to become utterly disillusioned by Stalinism.
Well he was an anti-Stalinist but he was way too much liberal.
 
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