Volume 16, Number 9 · May 20, 1971
Son of Pinkerton
By Murray Kempton
Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives
by Allan Pinkerton
Arno Press, 412 pp., $16.00
J. Edgar Hoover Speaks Concerning Communism
compiled and edited by James G. Bales
Craig Press, 324 pp., $5.95
The Masked War
by William J. Burns
Arno Press, 328 pp., $11.50
The replacement of Allan Pinkerton, dealer in detectives for Wealth during the late nineteenth century, by J. Edgar Hoover, supervisor of detectives for Commonwealth, must be the only episode in our social history to realize Marx's prescription for the transformation of capitalistic private property into socialized property. For, as Pinkerton was the only great acquisitor of the nineteenth century whose legacy has since been nationalized, Mr. Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation is unique among our public institutions as an example of the triumph of the socialist idea.
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