Reviews for The long war

The average rating for The long war based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-11-22 00:00:00 Edward Dedeo This book covers familiar territory -- internecine warfare on the left in the 1930s -- but adds a useful archival layer to the story and provides a kind of social history of the conflict between intellectuals: who wrote which nasty letter to whom. All this serves to support a kind of "anxiety of influence" thesis, that anti-Front anti-Stalinists, New York intellectuals, and various other non-CPUSA-affiliated radicals turned on a diverse Front-supporting group Kutulas calls "progressives" for two reasons: (i) as part of the normal turnover of intellectual generations and (ii) because of sociological differences between these groups (the noncommunist leftists were Jews, progressives WASPs). The social history is rich and interesting, the sociological thesis is far less convincingly supported.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-12-03 00:00:00 Waymond Jung A promising proposition that greatly problematises simple political procedures with notions of a (Lacanian) desiring subject - that is one constituted by lack.