I know that he was one of the many western communists who fell for Khruschev’s lies at the height of the cold war. But I would also like to know about him from the comrades who have read his works and his biography.
What org was he apart of?
I may have heard of him.
Many communists believed Khruschev, but that doesn’t mean that they were all bad.
CPUSA.
I wanted to know about him both as an author and as a person.
I know of CPUSA a lot. I was apart of the organization and read much of their history.
He was a great communist and a Jewish one at that who wrote a lot of “labor lore novels” or novels dealing with working-class issues as well as novels like Freedom Road and Citizen Tom Paine. He often cast events in American history through a labor perspective.
He wrote “Why the Fifth Amendment?”, which informs current CPUSA theory.
He pretty much wrote over a hundred works, fictional and non-fiction, up to around his death in 2003, including one about Nazim Hikmet (famous Turkish communist).
Nice. Did he ever manage to break out of anti-Stalin propaganda again?
nope
Sad to know. The fall of Soviet Union and Khruschev’s revisionist reforms that led to it should have cleared it. I guess he was already too old in the 90s and the 2000s to read and discuss political history anymore.
Well, keep in mind that even Sankara said bad shit about Stalin.
But Fast supported the Soviet Union for a long time, keep in mind.
