A lifelong radical and a moral touchstone for the left (The Prosecution of Chandler Davis, as mentioned in ‘Jacobin’)
February 20, 2024
In 1990, reflecting on his CPUSA years, he wrote me that “I decided some time in the 70s that what I really ought to have been is a Shachtmanite . . . .” Afterward, he no longer identified himself as a “Marxist-Leninist” but told biographer Batterson that he was a “red-green eco-socialist.”