Brendan Campisi’s Reviews > Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 > Status Update
Brendan Campisi
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Living under Nazi occupation during 1939–45 imposed intolerable decisions on Europe’s citizens, in ways becoming ever more brutalized and atrocious the further to the east one looks...Political decisions were simultaneously elevated and compromised—reduced on the one hand to the most basic issues of everyday survival and infused with the most complex and momentous ethical meanings on the other.
— May 24, 2025 05:07PM
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Brendan Campisi
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Rosalind Delmar went to her first women’s meeting in 1968: “A male trade unionist came in and started telling us what to do. We told him to go away, no one was going to listen to him. There had always been a tendency on the student left to defer to industrial workers because they were felt to be more strategically important than anyone else—certainly more than women. I was very impressed with what we had done.”
— May 27, 2025 11:20AM
Brendan Campisi
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For the poet Alexander Blok, the [October] revolution was “to remake everything. To organize things so that everything should be new, so that our false, filthy, boring, hideous life should become a just, pure, merry, and beautiful life.”
— May 23, 2025 12:01PM
