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 contradictory 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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