Talk:John Reed (journalist)

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added information on attending morristown prep prior to harvard. Actually a segment of the film reds was to be filmed at Morristown beard, but the school did not want the negative attention assocaited with communism at the time.

Copyvio reversion

I'm pretty sure that almost the entire article was a copyright violation. It didn't read like an encyclopedia article, and when I googled a phrase, this came out. It's an extract from the book Howard Zinn on History (2000), and I'm pretty sure it's copyrighted. It also turns out that the editor who added this information has also added other articles with dubious copyright violations, see The Masses and New Masses. - Hahnchen 18:56, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"only American buried in the Kremlin Wall in Red Square"

The article claims that reed was the "only American buried in the Kremlin Wall in Red Square"; I was under the impression Bill Haywood's ashes (in part) were also burried there.

-Deus Homoni 09:37, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Hi all,"

why you accept that 'hahnchen' destroy in an act of barbarism the whole article, swinging the hammer of 'copyrigt law' ? He used only one phrase to be 'pretty sure' ! Let him demonstrate the copyr. violation of every phrase. Beside the wording is common knowledge not owned by single authors.

Question

"Western historians examining Soviet archives after the end of the Cold War discovered that Reed, whose first-hand account of the Russian Revolution has been much-celebrated over the years, in fact was on the Bolshevik payroll, receiving more than $1 million (in 1918 dollars)."

Could I get a cite, a source, a reference, or any sign of validity on this?

I think that Reed was on a payroll for soviet propaganda to Germany, not for his personal project Ten Days That Shook the World. He was working in Smolny with Albert Rhys Williams. Take a look to Louise Bryants Six Red Months or Williams' Trough the Russian Revolution.

thats absurd, Reed even went to mexico and became friend with Pancho Villa, no money was payd for him there either.

Someones attempt to tarnish Reeds career?

-G

Communist Party USA illegal?

I don't think the party itself was illegal. The Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918 probably made some of their activities illegal (membership in an international party, basically), aside from their actual criminal acts. The Palmer Raids exclusively attacked members of leftist groups, but none of the groups, per se, were made illegal. The article for Workers Party of America says it was "underground", but never illegal. Is this nit-picking? 192.132.210.30 19:00, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

german wiki says reed have had a Criminal procedure by the Supreme Court of the United States for High treason and so he fleed from the USA, emigrating in the soviet union --Tets1 13:19, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Left Communist?

He is in the Left Communist Category, but no source or citation for that is given. Mdotley 22:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

-Here: "Even at the time there was a reaction against these blatant attempts to reconcile reactionary nationalism with proletarian internationalism. Lenin himself warned against ‘painting nationalism red’. Significantly, Roy criticised the Congress before it was held, and refused to attend what he dubbed as “Zinoviev’s Circus”, while John Reed, the American left-wing communist, also objected bitterly to its “demagogy and display”." (The Baku Congress and the Consequences of Opportunism, Communists and the National Question, Part 3: The Debate during the Revolutionary Wave and the Lessons for Today. http://en.internationalism.org/book/export/html/1595) A

Also "Reed “made no secret of his contempt and hatred for Zinoviev and Radek, whose authority in the Comintern was then pre-eminent” " (Theodore Draper’s Roots of American Communism in Eastman, LR p. 259 qtd. in Goldner, Loren. Max Eastman : One American Radical’s View of the “Bolshevization” of the American Revolutionary Movement and a Forgotten, and Unforgettable, Portrait of Trotsky. 2006. http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/eastman.html)

Mayis