The “Third Camp”: Hal Draper debates Ignazio Silone
The debate that follows occurred in the weekly paper of the Independent Socialist League of the USA, Labor Action, in January and April 1956. Click here to download as pdf Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) is best known today as a novelist, author of Bread And Wine, Fontamara, and other books. He was a founder member of the Italian Communist Party (in 1921); he broke with Stalin in 1931, speaking out for independent working-class politics, and moved to the right in the 1940s and 50s, contributing to the famous anthology The God That Failed (1949). Recent historians have found evidence that he was...