Sartre Against Stalinism
About this book
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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Table of contents
- SARTRE AGAINST STALINISM
- CONTENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- CHRONOLOGY
- Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
- PART I. The Making of a Rebel
- Chapter 2. ‘LA COMMUNISTE’
- Chapter 3. THE THREAT OF FASCISM
- Chapter 4. WAR WITHIN WAR
- PART II. Postwar Choices
- Chapter 5. THE BETTER CHOICE
- Chapter 6. MATERIALISM OR REVOLUTION?
- Chapter 7. THE SPECTRE OF TROTSKY
- Chapter 8. THE RDR
- Chapter 9. WHICH CAMP?
- PART III. Rapproachement with Stalinism
- Chapter 10. REORIENTATION
- Chapter 11. DANGEROUS LIAISON
- Chapter 12. DEBATE WITH THE FAR LEFT
- Chapter 13. LAYING THE GHOST
- PART IV. Towards a New Left
- Chapter 14. FROM PRACTICE TO THEORY
- Chapter 15. THE BATTLE OVER ALGERIA
- Chapter 16. REBUILDING THE LEFT
- Chapter 17. MAY TO DECEMBER
- Chapter 18. CONCLUSION: SARTRE’S CENTURY?
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
