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"By analysing a wide variety of political and literary texts, this study exposes the dead ends of liberal ideology and recovers alternative traditions of Marxism and working class struggle written out of nationalist and Stalinist historiography.-- ""Benita Parry, University of Warwick"" Johnson's book constitutes a benchmark for the history of freedom in South Africa and offers a refreshing conceptual and intellectual analysis of the South African left.--Kasper Brask�n, Abo Akademi University ""Twentieth Century Communism"" Johnson's innovative, meticulously-researched book, full of surprises, explores South Africa's marginalized literary and political traditions, thus enriching our understanding of the freedom struggle in all its complexity and diversity.-- ""Allison Drew, University of York and University of Cape Town"" Professor Johnson's book is rigorous, analytical, closely-argued, and almost forensic in its interrogation of a chosen collection of South Africa's 'literary dreams and political visions'.--Bill Nasson ""LitNet"""

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David Johnson, Professor of Literature, The Open University.

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