GAUCHE: LIBERTARIAN SOCIALISM

27 March 2004

LIBERTARIAN SOCIALISM - 2

I was vaguely aware that there was an almighty row going on over translation of the works of the late Cornelius Castoriadis, founder and inspiration of the French review Socialisme ou Barbarie (1948-65) and one of the key thinkers of the libertarian left in the second half of the 20th century. But I'd no idea it had come to this. (Thanks to Arts and Letters Daily for this one.)

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'Moscow Gold? The Soviet Union and the British left by Paul Anderson and Kevin Davey is a fine little book you can read in a day. Anderson and Davey have taken advantage of the vast amount of research into communism since the end of the cold war. They wear it lightly, and refreshingly, are open about their political position. As members of the democratic left, they believe that communism was a disaster for left wing politics. It tied the left to tyranny and the lies and disillusion that went with it.'
NICK COHEN

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