The Reuther Memorandum, Dec 1961

I’ve looked at a number of sources to see whether the Reuther Memorandum was a hoax or not, designed to discredit the Left but it appears to be genuine. Here’s one source discussing it in the context of the times. Scribd has source material. Below is a reprint by Unqualified Reservations.

Basically, the Left has a problem with the Centre-Right, which is what the term indicates – moderates who advocate nation, sovereignty, patriotism, family, private property, inheritance, freedom of choice, free enterprise, small[ish] government, the rule of law, common sense, initiative and so on.

As this large sector of the population – in America, the majority – can’t be directly vilified, as the Left has stolen many of those words for itself, particularly liberty and freedom, which of course leftist policies achieve the opposite of, then they have to counterattack something, someone and this was the context of the Reuther Memorandum, given to President Kennedy as a possible solution to the Right.

At my own place, commenting on Eric Foner and the Hard Left who have infiltrated all institutions in the society via a plethora of organizations from ACORN to ASH and who infest the universities, I put what I saw as the major sectors of society:

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