Talk:Benjamin Gitlow

Gitlow as anticommunist
I'll be taking the story through the 1940s or so, but there will be a fairly large hole remaining to be filled relating to Gitlow's later years and his conservative political activity. This omission on my part is conscious, but related to my period of expertise rather than his chosen ideology. Someone needs to fill in the blanks... Carrite (talk) 18:17, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Gitlow as Executive Secretary
Fun fact: Benjamin Gitlow was Executive Secretary of the CPUSA for exactly one week: named to the position on March 16, 1929 following the 6th Convention. Then he left for Moscow as part of the 10 member delegation to appeal the decision to remove Lovestone from America, leaving New York on March 23 with Robert Minor in control of the Party, according to his own memoir. ("I Confess, pg. 523) Carrite (talk) 16:33, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Gitlow's run for mayor from prison in 1921
Is it worth putting in some information about this? At some point I'm going to update the sentence on his prison term, since it seems that during the 1921 campaign, in September, they transferred him from Sing Sing to Auburn to make it harder for him to keep in touch with the campaign, so that what's now written is strictly speaking inaccurate (2 years in Sing Sing). To make that clear, though, a little info on the campaign seems necessary, but again, perhaps is too much detail.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 17:46, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Despite or perhaps because of
This sentence: Despite (or perhaps because of) his two years as a Socialist parliamentarian, Ben Gitlow professed a belief in revolutionary Socialism. strikes me as a little speculative. Is there a source? It's just the first clause that bothers me here. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 20:04, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

What was his criticism?
The article says that Gitlow wrote important exposés of American communism, but it says practically nothing about their content.

Is anybody familiar with them? What was his criticism against communism exactly? --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 10:46, 14 December 2015 (UTC)