78
PARTISAN REVIEW
Straws in the Wind
"... Few of the writers in
Left Review
seem to have any idea of the issue involved
in Spain or China, or are able to under–
stand that the establishment of a 'Popular
Front' would
be
the surest play into the
hands of capitalism, that the only possible
way to establish communism here is to
'hunger, work illegally, and
be
anonymous'.
The writers (and no doubt the readers) in
this paper envisage communism,
110t the
steps l1UeUa,.y to make commul1ism pos–
sible;
they are in the position of the Men–
sheviks in the Russian Revolution, a posi-
\
tion untenable and dead."-Julian Symons,
writing in the Summer issue of
Life
&
Lme,.s Today.
La
Nouvelle Saisol1,
new literary monthly
published in Paris, treats Hitlerism and
"turncoat Stalinism" as twin phenomena:
"No longer may one play the rogue with
the future of humanity . .. No longer may
one adopt a " tactic" which requires the
surrender, even provisionally, of inte!:c::ctual
honesty. Such a tactic deceives above all
those who use it; they find themselves
isolated from the masses and presently op·
posed to the masses on the most vital
questions:·
