Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked

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The CIA is a liberal force in the world, right liberal for sure, but
liberal.  This old left right analysis is useless.

On Tuesday, August 25, 2015, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> http://www.theawl.com/2015/08/literary-magazines-for-socialists-funded-by-the-cia-ranked
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