VL is about Work (Marcuse and Vineland's Electrican).2.1

[Mike Weaver]

Terrance fishes:
>BTW, when I use the term "Left-Wing" in these posts I am talking about,
>
>1. Communists
>2. trade unionist who did not belong to Communist organizations (front
>of otherwise) but who were intellectually and emotionally socialists.
>3. Fellow travelers or those individuals who agreed with the Party
>position on a variety of issues, trade union & etc., but were not
>Communists, either formally or philosophically.

Mike bites:
There's a little problem with this definition WRT Vineland -  the IWW were 
as often as not opposed to the communists, Sasha is a Trotskyist, and the 
Party was largely irrelevant to Frenesi's generation of US radicals (Angela 
Davis is the only CP member of significance that I can think of from that 
era.) Making the CP the star at the centre of your left-wing system is fine 
as long as you realise that it is a system with few planets and far more 
comets, most of them heading out.
The only periods when the vast majority of the non CP left fell into your # 
3 were 1918-23 and 41-45.