Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked
John Bailey
sundayjb at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 20:00:03 CDT 2015
Interestingly, the Australian litmag funded by the Congress for
Cultural Freedom - Quadrant - quickly made the CCF uncomfortable as it
was too conservative and not at all socialist. It's still considered a
mouthpiece for reactionary capitalism here. Quite an accomplishment to
have the CIA going "sorry, but these guys are just too far to the
right for us..."
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Neither Peace nor Freedom:
> The Cultural Cold War in Latin America
> Patrick Iber
>
> During the Cold War, left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and
> scholars worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and
> even led nations. Their competing visions of social democracy and
> their pursuit of justice, peace, and freedom led them to organizations
> sponsored by the governments of the Cold War powers: the Soviet-backed
> World Peace Council, the U.S.-supported Congress for Cultural Freedom,
> and, after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the homegrown Casa de las
> Américas.
>
> Neither Peace nor Freedom delves into the entwined histories of these
> organizations and the aspirations and dilemmas of intellectuals who
> participated in them, from Diego Rivera and Pablo Neruda to Gabriel
> Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges. Patrick Ibercorrects the view
> that such individuals were merely pawns of the competing superpowers.
> Movements for democracy and social justice sprung up among
> pro-Communist and anti-Communist factions, and Casa de las Américas
> promoted a brand of revolutionary nationalism that was beholden to
> neither the Soviet Union nor the United States.
>
> But ultimately, intellectuals from Latin America could not break free
> from the Cold War’s rigid binaries. With the Soviet Union demanding
> fealty from Latin American communists, the United States zealously
> supporting their repression, and Fidel Castro pushing for regional
> armed revolution, advocates of social democracy found little room to
> promote their ideals without compromising them. Cold War politics had
> offered utopian dreams, but intellectuals could get neither the peace
> nor the freedom they sought
>
> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674286047
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.theawl.com/2015/08/literary-magazines-for-socialists-funded-by-the-cia-ranked
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