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Oppenheimer himself at his 1954 security clearance hearings denied being a member of the Communist Party, but identified himself as a fellow traveler, which he defined as someone who agrees with many of the goals of Communism, but without being willing to blindly follow orders from any Communist party apparatus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer destroyed himself, allying himself with the only orthodoxy [but somehow being not orthodox] that was more murderous than fascism.

How is agreeing with some of the goals of an othodoxy the same as allying with it?

Further, how is an orthodoxy/political belief murderous? I thought only people could commit murder.

Oh please. If somebody is a "fellow traveler" of Nazism, he would be permanently banned from public life.

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