Anti-Gide

Alternate Titles

• Optimismus bez pověr a ilusí.

Description

By its book "the antione or Optimism without superstitions and illusions" Stanislav Kostka Neumann is addressed to the young people especially. "It is with you, young friend, that I propose this result of a life rather long but not extraordinary", says it in the foreword. It subjects the text of Andre Gide to a detailed criticism and systematically dissects it in seven chapters devoted inter alia to the religion, intellectualism, freedom, the democracy, the revolt of the intellectuals and artistic creation. It does not claim to be without party taken: "The class struggle must be led to end and to finish by a total defeat of the exploiteurs," says it categorically. While attacking Gide, it attacks not only with all the adversaries of the Soviet mode, but also all those which doubt. It fustigates the individualism of Gide which, in his opinion, makes null and void the Gidian design of happiness. It is also caught some so that it calls the play of Gide with the religion and it concludes: "The liberal individualism which is the base even of each intellectual, who it is a fanatic or a hedonist like Gide, does not feel a collective responsibility. Friend, am never his example!" In the chapter devoted to the democracy, it asks: "Dictatorship of the proletariat? But it is always of the democracy, only it is a democracy for the majority, not a democracy for the minority, the exploiteurs." It is logical that such a reasoning carries out it to justify the lawsuits against the inconvenient people with the mode of Moscow. "There were many people who had various doubts on the lawsuits of Moscow, it notices. The most widespread and supported idea, of course, by the middle-class press and trockist was that which Stalin got rid of his "adversaries". Not, the proletariat gets rid of the saboteurs." And Neumann to criticize, inter alia, Zavis Kalandra, communist journalist, who dared to blame the Stalinist lawsuits. This moment, Neumann does not know and cannot know that Zavis Kalandra will be condemned to die in the political lawsuits of the Fifties.

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Series Statement

• Svét -- 57.