In Part 2 of their Robeson deep dive, Dimitri and Khalid discuss Robeson’s calculated reaction to the arrest of his friends (Soviet Yiddish poets Itzik Feffer and Solomon Mikhoels) in 1949, the blatant misprintings of his speech at the 1949 Paris Peace Conference, his subsequent blacklisting and testimony before Congress, getting attacked by the NAACP, his rare line of embracing Khrushchev while refusing to criticize Stalin, how Robeson’s approach to class and race differs from both the “class reductionist” post-left and the “Read Settlers”/bodies-and-spaces ultraleft today, Robeson’s simultaneous embrace of religion and Marxism-Leninism, and the likely BZ poisoning/MK-Ultra “depatterning therapies” Robeson was subjected to in a UK hospital which ruined his health and effectively ended his public career.

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