I made considerable efforts to find Memoirs of a Revolutionary as a teenager after I read about Serge in Dwight Macdonald's esssays from the 1940's . He was then all but forgotten in the US. The book had a great influence on me. I dont remember what he said about Italian fascism - been 40 years.
I find myself intrigued enough that I may look up the complete Burning Water. Strange that a Milanese jacuzzi should revive an interest in Mesoamerican religion.
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Date: 2011-11-13 03:06 am (UTC)Wikipedia says Séjourné joined the Mexican CP 'soon' after Serge's death (source is one Susan Weissmann, Victor Serge: The course is set on hope. Verso, London 2001). It seems incredible that she could have been an official Communist during Stalin's life butI know that some of the Mexican and Cuban Trotskyists werre willing to reconcile with the CP's after the Khruschev speech.
I find myself intrigued enough that I may look up the complete Burning Water. Strange that a Milanese jacuzzi should revive an interest in Mesoamerican religion.