>What was he conserving
Communism, for one thing – since the damned 1940s!
Ronald Reagan Testimony before HUAC, 1947 https://archive.is/BA8V6
Whether the Party should be outlawed, that is a matter for the Government to decide. As a citizen, I would hesitate to see any political party outlawed on the basis of its political ideology. We have spent a hundred and seventy years in this country on the basis that democracy is strong enough to stand up and fight against the inroads of any ideology. However, if it is proven that an organization is an agent of a foreign power, or in any way not a legitimate political party - and I think the Government is capable of proving that - then that is another matter. I happen to be very proud of the industry in which I work; I happen to be very proud of the way in which we conducted the fight. I do not believe the Communists have ever at any time been able to use the motion-picture screen as a sounding board for their philosophy or ideology. https://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/108/110880/ch26_a5_d1.pdf
Oh really -
A closer look reveals a circle of individuals…who were advocating for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government…. Ahead of World War II, many members of the Communist Party of Germany left for other parts of the world… were rejected as undesirables by other developed nations such as the United Kingdom, and so they headed for the United States. After their arrival, many writers and filmmakers joined the ranks of American Communist Party groups.
This gave rise to popular front movements supporting Soviet infiltration of art and culture venues and the penetration of political institutions in the mid-1930s… transform the entertainment industry into a tool to spread communist ideology and propaganda.
According to Michael Kazin, a history professor at Georgetown University, this grand-scale takeover scheme began in 1930s Hollywood with influential film industry leftists such as Yip Harburg, songwriter for “The Wizard of Oz” … Harburg was one of the leading pro-Soviet artists in Hollywood’s motion picture industry. Human Events reporter Allan H. Ryskind states that the House committee “uncovered over 200 Party members in Hollywood,” although Ryskind says his father, a screenwriter in Hollywood at the time, believes the actual number was closer to 300…
Arthur Eckstein writes that the Hollywood establishment has never lost its love affair with the Communist Party in both a political and cultural sense. They even had major stars reenact cherry-picked parts of the committee’s hearings that suited the Hollywood establishment’s revisionist narrative. archive.is/c30tD theepochtimes.com/spreading-the-red-stain-the-communist-infiltration-of-hollywood_2299892.html
An actual high-ranking Communist from the ’30s & ’40s who TESTIFIED in 1953:
“The American people have got to stop fooling around with just fighting communism in the abstract. They have got to know what the thing means, why they are against it, and how to fight it.”
https://unconstrainedanalytics.org/forgotten-testimony-dr-bella-dodd-warns-about-communism/
https://archive.is/o/cKpSD/
And ANOTHER, a black man:
Manning Rudolph Johnson (December 17, 1908 – July 2, 1959) was a Communist Party USA African-American leader and the party's candidate for U.S. Representative from New York's 22nd congressional district during a special election in 1935. He later left the Party and became a government informant and witness.
RED PLOT TO USE NEGROES
Stirring up race and class conflict is the basis of all discussion of the Communist Party’s work in the South. The evil genius, Stalin, and the other megalomaniacal leaders in Moscow ordered the use of all racial, economic and social differences, no matter how small or insignificant, to start local fires of discontent, conflict and revolt. “Who could tell which of these issues could start a general conflagration” that would sweep across the former Confederate States from Maryland to Texas?
This plot to use the Negroes as the spearhead, or as expendables, was concocted by Stalin in 1928, nearly ten years after the formation of the world organization of Communism. https://archive.is/1Gqvm manningjohnson.org/