MAX BEDACHT
(Max Bedacht Sr.)
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Bedacht used this analogy to justify the expulsion of Ludwig Lore, a leader of an ideological faction with the Communist Party.
The confusion of dissent and dissidence and loyalty has plagued many political parties and nations throughout time. The Communists neither originated the concept and certainly were not the last to operate by it, but under Stalin, it took on a virulence that was later emulated by the American McCarthyism.
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Max Bedacht Sr. was a German-born American revolutionary socialist political activist, journalist, and functionary who helped establish the Communist Party of America. Bedacht is best remembered as the long-time head of the International Workers Order, a Communist Party-sponsored fraternal benefit organization.