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DESCRIPTION:Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library\n\nA Socialist Defector:\nFrom 
 Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee\n\n   After 24 years in the USA, 38 years in the 
 (East) German Democratic Republic as a McCarthy-era exile, then nearly 30 
 years in unified Germany, Victor Grossman, the ex-pat journalist and author 
 examines the rise and fall of a socialist experiment as he observed and 
 participated in it. He tries to clear through a fog of misinformation and 
 distortion regarding it, describing its achievements, its successes as well 
 as its blunders and negative aspects. Its position regarding Nazis and 
 fascism is compared with that in West Germany. Its school system, women’s 
 rights, both models in many ways, cultural questions and other matters are 
 examined from a personal, anecdotal and sometimes humorous perspective.\n   
 The book then turns to a broader examination of possible lessons to be 
 learned when searching for solutions to present-day problems: the growing 
 gap between rich and poor, alarmingly malevolent dangers for a crippled 
 environment, the menace of racism and new fascist movements, the almost 
 ignored danger of atomic annihilation - and who is to blame for them. But 
 the book also looks at newly invigorated hopes for a better, a socialist 
 future despite the many barriers to its realization – seen through the 
 prism of a veteran of the “old Left” in the USA, Communist rule and the 
 Cold War in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, and expresses his views on 
 current fears and hopes on both sides of the Atlantic – and the 
 Pacific. \n   (Copies of Victor’s book will be available for purchase, 
 cash or checks only, NO CREDIT CARDS.\n\nSun, June 9, 2019 – 
 10:30am-12:30pm\n6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz 
 Ave.)\nFREE - but hat will be passed for donations to NPML\n\nAbout Sunday 
 Morning at the Marxist Library\nA weekly discussion series inspired by our 
 respect for the work of Karl Marx and our belief that his work will remain 
 as important for the class struggles of the future as they have been for 
 the past. \n\nFor info or to subscribe to our weekly announcements, \nCall 
 Gene Ruyle at 510-332-3865 or email: cuyleruyle@mac.com\nFor our full 
 schedule, go to icssmarx.org \nLabor donated by ICSS volunteers\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/27/18823640.php
SUMMARY:A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of 
 Alcatraz Ave.)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/27/18823640.php
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