![]() ![]() What had this generation’s progressive causes amounted to? Meanwhile, Senator Joseph McCarthy was raving like a proto-Trump at left-leaning Americans. The marquee intellectual philosophy of the young 20th century - communism - was sagging from the revelation that “Father Stalin” had overseen the death of millions communist stalwarts in the West, like Lessing, felt they’d had the carpet pulled out from under them. When Doris Lessing, the British-Zimbabwean novelist who died in 2013, sat down to write “The Golden Notebook” in the 1950s, she was responding to a feeling of defeat in leftist circles, one similar to the whiplash experienced by liberals after the election of President Trump. ![]()
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