Corey 's political path took another detour in the latter part of 1936 , when he moved again away from the CPUSA 's orbit and began an association with the dissident Communist movement around expelled party leader Jay Lovestone . The so-called Lovestoneites embraced the fundamental tenets of Marxism , but oriented themselves towards the American trade union movement and away from foreign domination of the International Communist movement and its centrally-determined obsession with advancing the foreign policy interests of the USSR . With secret police terror beginning to rage in the Soviet Union from 1936 onwards , the Lovestone political organization 's criticism of the USSR became increasingly harsh and its appreciation of American institutions more pronounced — a perspective which Corey himself shared
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