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Bad Romance
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 67, Number 2, Spring 2020
- pp. 7-12
- 10.1353/dss.2020.0032
- Article
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Abstract:
The afterlife of Vivian Gornick's Romance of American Communism speaks perfectly to her actual point: no political movement ever really ends, but rather becomes part of a set of reference points; no political moment ever begins anew, but always bears the weight of dead generations—and sometimes living ones, too.