Family Quarrel: Joe Salsberg, the 'Jewish' Question, and Canadian Communism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Joseph Baruch Salsberg was one of Canada's best known and respected communists when he left the Labor-Progressive Party in 1957 after years of anguish over clear evidence of antisemitism in the Soviet Union. After a 30-year career in the Party in which he and numerous radicals had invested their belief that communism heralded a better world's in birth and solutions for all mankind's troubles, including the Jewish question, Salsberg concluded that the poison of antisemitism was alive and well in the communist nirvana — and, with a broken heart, he walked away after vainly trying to convince Soviet leaders to reverse the trend. Resume Joseph Baruch Salsberg etait l'un des communistes les plus connus et les plus respectes du Canada quand il a quitte le Parti ouvrier-progressiste en 1957 apres des annees d'angoisse sur l'evidence d'antisemitisme au sein de l'Union sovietique. Apres une carriere de 30 ans au Parti dans lequel de nombreux militants juifs et lui-meme croyaient profondement que le communisme ouvrait la voie a la «naissance d'un meilleur monde » et aux solutions de tous les problemes des etres humains, y compris la « question juive », Salsberg est enfin arrive a la conclusion que le poison de l'antisemitisme etait tout aussi repandu dans le nirvana communiste — et, avec le cœur brise, il est parti apres avoir essaye en vain de convaincre les dirigeants sovietiques de renverser la tendance.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".