Re: [Pen-l] Obscene

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On 1/29/09, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> said:

> [The] video . . . "Obscene" helps to document . . .
> that the old left of the 1930s was midwife to both
> the beat generation and the political radicalization
> and counter-culture of the 1960s.
>
> Focused on the career of Barney Rosset, who founded
> Grove Press and published Evergreen Review, this superb
> documentary reveals how it was completely natural for a
> member of the Young Communists in 1937 to eventually
> end up publishing not only "Lady Chatterly's Lover" and
> "Tropic of Cancer" in defiance of the Calvinist censorship
> laws of the 1950s, but to also print the "Autobiography
> of Malcolm X" in defiance of the racist attitudes that
> prevailed in American publishing.  . . . etc., etc. . . .

What (if anything) does the video portray about Rossett's aggressively 
antagonistic response to the unionization efforts by/among his company's 
editors that included his "justifying" that antagonism, implemented by 
summary discharges, imposition of discipline, etc., on the ground his 
company's employees ought volunteer their services, or, anyway, accept low 
pay and to them onerous working conditions, in part because the company was 
owned/run by a well-credentialed "[old] leftist"?



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