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Paul Robeson

You're Dead to Me

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What Is the Relationship Between Paul Robeson and the Miners Union?

In the fifties, starlin now is a proper bad guy. The fact that he was not publicly outspoken in response to those has caused a lot of concern for people who adore him. To out russia wholecloth would have been to compromise the project of socialism. He always identified himself as a democratic socialist. And recognized that even with his villainy, he could still do so as paul robsen,. whom the world adored still. But certainly also was making all of these curatorial moves that suggested that he understood very much what was happening there. It's not naivety. It is political caution and strategy.

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