..".this is a worthy analysis of the dangerous and ambiguous
political liaisons of an important twentieth-century thinker. The
argument is persuasive in showing that the subject of this book was
separate and apart from what E.P. Thopson stigmatised as the
'shambles' of the 'tenacious posthumous Stalinism of the French
Communist intelligentsia'" Labour History
..". an outstanding contribution to Sartre studies. There is
nothing quite like it, and Birchall's scholarship is formidable ...
The author has an impressive mastery of his topic, the deep
intellectual and political background needed for this study, and
has gone into the many sources needed to answer his questions." Ron
Aronson, Wayne State University
"Th e] understanding and separation of different elements of the
French left is one of the strengths of Birchall's book ... It]
provides a useful and accessible historical analysis of Sartre's
writing and politics, and offers a full, convincing and critical
account of why Sartre should be reclaimed to an anti-Stalinist
position...As a clear outline of Sartre's relation to the French
left Sartre Against Stalinism is an interesting and informative
read." International Socialism
"The question of what kind of politics and what kind of
organisation the movement needs is practical and urgent. This]
account of Sartre as a fighter for freedom - however flawed a
fighter - is timely and invaluable." Socialist Review
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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