Axelrod is a card carrying communist.
#20. Correct it to Axelrod was mentored by a card-carrying (in secret) communist, David Simon Canter, who was identified in a House Committee on Un-American Activities on Communist in Chicago, in 1965. His father (Harry J) was a founding member of the Communist Party USA and worked for Stalin in the Soviet Union (where he took his whole family to lives for a number of years).
Axelrod’s other Chicago red mentor was Don Rose, an admitted leftist/Marxist of sorts, but he has never been publicly identified as a member of the CPUSA those he supported their front, the American Labor Party in 1948, the cited CPUSA front, the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights, and was mixed up with the SDS/Weathermen protests of 1968.
He slipped through the government’s internal security hearings with only one listing for the hearings on “The Nationwide Drive Against Law Enforcement Intelligence Operations”, SISS, Part 2, July 11, 1975 (he Chicago CP front).
Rose stayed under the government’s congressional hearings radar until 1975 though he had to have been noticed by the Chicago Red Squad because of his longtime communist affiliations.
Just a few historical details I thought you might like to see.
See my comments at #60. Never could find evidence that Axelrod was a CPUSA member. Nor his mother or father though there was a CPUSA elector’s list for NY City that listed a man thought to be his father. Non-Party people could sign an Elector’s list.
His mother’s career with PM magazine has not produced anything noteworthy, if at all.
Axelrod was one of those “talented” people that the Party watched and them “mentored” and “groomed” to do their work, be it teach as was the case of Angela Davis or to be one of the ideologically “affinity” people in the media. Obama is the greatest case of all. He had communists and Marxists around him and guiding him throughout his whole post adolescent life including Saul Alinsky and Frank Marshall Davis.