You refer to Lenin's fundraiser, Peter Kropotkin?.
In her book, The Proud Tower, historian Barbara Tuchman wrote how Kropotkin came to the U.S. and served as a centerpiece in many upper class New York City salons. He used these opportunities to collect millions of dollars in Lenin's behalf...from the wealthy and "intellectual" elites whom Lenin (and Kropotkin) intended to pauperize and/or murder.
If I am not mistaken, Peter Kropotkin is also from whence the term "crackpot" arose.
I believe that these are also fronts in the War on Terror, necessary battlefields that must be faced to deal with our homegrown terrorists.
I could not agree more.
Thanks for the Kropotkin references. I wasn't thinking of him specifically, but yes, people associated with him and Lenin in New York would be one example of what I was talking about. More generally I was thinking of various philanthropists in New York, New England, the Midwest, and California that supported a number of pre-Soviet and early Soviet developments like the Second International, the Progressive Movement, certain utopian colonies with a Marxist orientation, the Hull House network, Emma Goldman, etc. There were also some American businessmen who effectively helped finance the young Soviet Union for what appear to have been non-ideological, financially-motivated reasons, such as Henry Ford and Averell Harriman.