Re: [Marxism] INDEPENDENT (UK): Aime Cesaire: Founding father of Negritude

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Walter Lippmann wrote:
>
> Independent.co.uk
>
> Aime Cesaire: Founding father of Negritude
> ...Césaire was affiliated with the
> French Communist Party, but left this in 1956 after the Soviet
> invasion of Hungary.


As I pointed out in an earlier posting this is a clear error.  Césaire  
made a total break with Stalinism *before* the Russian invasion of  
Hungary:

> ...Césaire's long and brilliant letter of resignation from the PCF 
> (http://www.ppm-martinique.net/Lettre-a-Maurice-Thorez_a44.html 
> ) was dated October 24, 1956, the day before the outbreak of the   
> Hungarian Revolution.  It was a scathing political critique of the   
> French Stalinist Party and its thoroughly colonialist mindset as well
> as its subservience to Stalin and its apologia for the crimes of  
> his  regime.


Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to  
be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos




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