Edited sentence: ' If you don't have that, if you think you've got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated.ALINSKY: I knew plenty of Communists in those days, and I worked with them on a number.And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism.Anybody who tells you he was active in progressive.Back in the Thirties, the Communists did a hell of a lot of good work; they were.But Alinsky also said this in a Playboy interview:.I prize my own independence too much.I was also sympathetic to Russia in those days, not because I admired Stalin.I was in charge of a big part of fund raising for the International Brigade and in that.I've never joined any organization—not even the ones I've organized myself.One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're right.PLAYBOY: What was your own relationship with the Communist Party.Stalin & Beria did not want Communist agents that were involved in subversive work in America to be members of the Communist Party USA, as the FBI had members of the CPUSA under surveillance.The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.Their platform.Without the Communists, for example, I doubt the C.and Okies and Southern sharecroppers.battles it did.capacity I worked in close alliance with the Communist Party.causes in those days and never worked with the Reds is a goddamn liar.could have won all the.in the vanguard of the labor movement and they played an important role in aiding blacks.of projects.on the line.or the Soviet system but because it seemed to be the only country willing to stand up to.stood for all the right things, and unlike many liberals, they were willing to put their bodies.{{quote|Not at any time