NYT Op-Ed: Communism Gave Americans a ’Sense of One’s Own Humanity’
Frances Martel
Gornick writes that she grew up in a “progressive” household where communists “spoke and thought within a context that lifted them out of the nameless, faceless obscurity into which they had been born, and gave them the conviction that they had rights as well as obligations.
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