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The question MacDonald has with Malina, seeing as he managed to avoid the worst of the "Red Scare" crackdown by going into exile, was the extent of his commitment to "Socialism as it is," and the government that embodied it, or whether he was mostly an anti-fascist and a genuine believer in internationalism who was latching onto the best available option. MacDonald's suspicion was that there was a serious intellectual interest at the time, but that Malina was too skeptical of state power to really be a security risk. That said, MacDonald also doesn't treat Malina, Powers, and Qian (among others) as naïfs, as they were involved in a security-sensitive situation where they were taking risks by even appearing to compromise themselves. MacDonald's main point being that, at this point in time, we ought to be able to handle a situation where there were shades of grey about personal motivation.… (mer)