>>I believe that it was CeJ who when detailing Sartre's Stalinist politics, asserted that he supported the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. But everything I have seen about Sartre's politics indicates that the opposite was the case. That is, he denounced the Soviet invasion of Hungary. In fact, that was one of the first times in the 1950s, where he found himself at loogerheads with the PCF. Within a few years, he was at odds with them again, because of their foot dragging over supporting the Algerian independence struggle, which Sartre avidly and courageously supported, at a time when that was not very popular in France, even on the left.<<
Not me. If I did, it must have been a typo with an omitted NOT or something. I may have posted a link to something that asserted that, but I don't remember it. That book about existentialism and Marxism (links to which I posted here) detailed that issue. I speculated on whether or not Sartre knew Althusser in the FCP in the 50s, long before the more famous debates of the 60s. I now speculate on whether or not he knew him through the old school ties, since Althusser was well set on a successful academic career (even before taking on for his own purposes the social scientific structuralism of Claude Levi Strauss. For example, Althusser's status as adviser, supervisor, mentor and friends of Foucault and Derrida were already established (and Sartre didn't have such relationships because, I would argue, he eschewed academia and the academic career). BTW, I admire Sartre's contributions to philosophy, social science and politics. And his relationships with Camus, De Beauvoir and Merleau Ponty have long fascinated me. I think JF you are thinking of someone else on another list, since you contribute on the philsophy of history on those lists while at the same time CB cross-posts from those very same lists to this list (for example this thread on the playboy philosopher, which seems to have sprung up already fully discussed somewhere else). CJ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
