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Sartre Against Stalinism

Sartre Against Stalinism

Birchall, Ian H.

Hardcover

Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies, Book 3

General SociologyGeneral World HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1571816216
ISBN13: 9781571816214
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jun 1 2004
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic and uncritical attitude to Stalinist Communism due, to a large extent, to their equation of Marxism with Stalinism. It is true that Sartre was guilty of many serious misjudgements with regard to the USSR and the French Communist Party. But his relationship with the Marxist Left was much more complex and co tradictory than most accounts admit. This book offers a political defence of Sartre and shows how, from a relatively apolitical stance in the 1930s, Sartre became increasingly involved in the politics of the Left; though he always distrusted Stalinism, he was sometimes driven to ally himself with it because of the force of its argument.

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