Monday, February 22, 2010

*Books To While Away The Class Struggle By-Confessions Of A Former Stalinist- "Tyranny To Freedom"

Click on the headline to link to Chapter One Of "Tyranny To Freedom: Diary Of A Former Stalinist" by Professor Emeritus Ludwik Kowalski.

Recently I have begun to post entries under the headline- “Songs To While Away The Class Struggle By”-that will include progressive and labor-oriented songs that might be of general interest to the radical public. I have decided to do the same for some films that may perk that same interest under the title in this entry’s headline. In the future I expect to do the same for books under a similar heading. And this entry is the first for books in the series-Markin


Markin comment:

It is always good to see what motivated those who under the banner of Stalinism, a banner very different from our Trotskyist-based tradition, fought for what they thought was our communist future. That said, contrary to what the good professor emeritus here implies in the memoir's conclusions (to speak nothing of the title), that task is nevertheless a task that we do not "outsource" to American "democratic" imperialism. Forward to future Octobers!

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