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In 2013, he joined opposition to the SWP Central Committee during the internal crisis over allegations of rape and resigned from the organisation in December.
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(Sartre Against Stalinism) Author: Ian Birchall published on (June, 2004)
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(Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time ) Author: Ian Birchall Oct-2011
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Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time
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Sartre Against Stalinism (Berghahn Monographs in French Studies)
( Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul S...)
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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Ian Birchall
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Sartre Against Stalinism (Berghahn Monographs in French Studies)
( Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul S...)
- (Sartre Against Stalinism) Author: Ian Birchall published on (June, 2004)
- (Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time ) Author: Ian Birchall Oct-2011
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Sartre Against Stalinism (Berghahn Monographs in French Studies)
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Formerly Senior Lecturer in French at Middlesex University, his research interests include the Communist International, the International Working Class, Communism and Trotskyism, France and Syndicalism, Babeuf, Sartre, Victor Serge and Alfred Rosmer. He is on the editorial board of Revolutionary History, a member of the London Socialist Historians Group and has completed a biography of Tony Cliff.
