Personal Beliefs
Albert E. Kahn was an outspoken critic of the Cold War, the McCarthy era, and the Vietnam War. A communist, he described himself as a "radical in the tradition of Jack London". During a period when many were intimidated by government efforts to suppress dissent, Kahn actively sought ways to communicate his views to the public at large. "As far as I was concerned, I was acting in the American tradition of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine and the framers of the Constitution", Kahn said in an interview shortly before his death. "The idea of any government telling me that I owe unequivocal allegiance to it is the most repugnant thing on earth."
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